Luke Daley

Presentations

Next Level Spock

So you already know and love Spock, the Enterprise ready testing framework, but want to know how to make the most of it and take your testing to the next level? Then this talk is for you. Even if you're new to Spock, but are interested in making your testing more effective this talk is for you.

Spock has many hidden gems which we'll be going through in this session. We'll also be looking at some of the upcoming features in Spock 0.7 including; functionality and contract mixins, improved configurability, and several new lumps of syntax sugar.

Functionally Testing Modern Web Applications with Geb

Geb is a browser automation solution for Groovy. It brings together the power of WebDriver, the elegance of jQuery content selection, the robustness of Page Object modelling and the expressiveness of the Groovy language. Geb enables more expressive, more concise, and (very importantly) more maintainable web tests.

In this session we'll go beyond an introduction and explore how to take advantage of Geb's advanced features to functionally test modern rich, dynamic, web applications. We'll also explore some common patterns and best practices for Page Object modelling that lead to robust tests with a high level of reuse. Finally we'll discuss cross browser testing strategies and explore the options for testing mobile device targeted sites. A basic understanding of Geb is required for this session.

Managing JavaScript with Gradle

JavaScript is playing an ever increasing role in modern web applications. This is having an impact on the way be automate the building of our applications as JavaScript introduces new challenges such as magnification, unification and even compilation of languages such as CoffeeScript.

In this session we'll look at how the Gradle build tool can help you test your JavaScript and transform your raw assets into optimised, deployment ready, units.

Gradle: Pushing automation to the limits

Effective companies and teams do more with less, and automation is a vital ingredient to this. As developers we are accustomed to the idea of build automation through build & continuous integration systems that compile, test & deploy our software. However, the production of software is typically only one of the concerns of a team or company. There are many auxiliary processes that can equally benefit from the rigour, repeatability and cheap labour of automation.

Gradleware - the company behind the Gradle build automation tool - has automation in its DNA, and applies it to everything that it does. In this session, we'll discuss and showcase different examples of the kind of automation the team @ Gradleware have developed to support the development of Gradle and its documentation, the online presence, user support, business processes and other aspects. The ideas discussed will invigorate participants to see new opportunities for automation in their endeavours.

Gradle - the Innovation continues

The Gradle development team have not been taking it easy since the release of Gradle 1.0. New features and innovations are constantly being added, rough edges are being smoothed and the platform continues to expand. In this session we’ll explore the most notable additions to Gradle since the release of 1.0 and preview some of the new and exciting features just over the horizon with Gradle founder and Gradleware CEO Hans Dockter and Gradle core developer Luke Daley.

The 1.0 release was the result of many years of engineering and innovation, and its release signals an increased commitment to stability and backwards compatibility for Gradle. But Gradle will continue to evolve with a high velocity to gain new capabilities, features and increased build performance.

We’ll dig into to some of the features incorporated since the 1.0 release, such as:

• Support for Build Migration
• Maven import support
• Parallel task execution
• Improved Dependency Reporting
• Improved access to the resolved dependency graph
• Gradle Android Support
• Improved test execution feedback on the command line
• Convenient testing of Gradle upgrades via build comparison
• Dependency injection for tasks, plugins and extensions
• More flexible error handling (i.e. continuing on failure)
• Improvements to the Tooling API (i.e. embedded Gradle)
• Better scalability for large scale enterprise builds
• And more.

We’ll also take a sneak peak at some of the upcoming features that will soon be available in Gradle and discuss strategies for keeping up to date with the latest Gradle developments to ensure you are getting the most out of your build tool.