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Spring Boot 2.0 Cookbook

You're reading from   Spring Boot 2.0 Cookbook Configure, test, extend, deploy, and monitor your Spring Boot application both outside and inside the cloud

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
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ISBN-13 9781787129825
Length 286 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Spring Boot 2. Configuring Web Applications FREE CHAPTER 3. Web Framework Behavior Tuning 4. Writing Custom Spring Boot Starters 5. Application Testing 6. Application Packaging and Deployment 7. Health Monitoring and Data Visualization 8. Spring Boot DevTools 9. Spring Cloud 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing tests using Spock

Another no-less-popular testing framework is Spock, which was written in Groovy by Peter Niederwieser. Being a Groovy-based framework, it is ideally suited to create testing suites for a majority of the JVM-based languages, especially for Java and Groovy itself. The dynamic language traits of Groovy make it well suited to write elegant, efficient, and expressive specifications in the Groovy language without the need for translations. It is done in Cucumber with the help of the Gherkin library. Being based on top of JUnit, and integrating with it through the JUnit's @RunWith facility, just like Cucumber does, it is an easy enhancement to the traditional unit tests and works well with all the existing tools, which have built-in support or integration with JUnit.

In this recipe, we will pick up from where the previous recipe left off and enhance our...

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