Luke Daley

Principal Engineer @ Gradleware

Luke Daley

Luke Daley is a Principal Engineer with Gradleware. At Gradleware Luke works to make Gradle an even better way to build and helps teams reach new levels of project automation and quality. When he's not working on Gradle, you'll find Luke hacking on other projects in the Groovy ecosystem like Grails (a Groovy web development framework), Spock (a next generation testing framework for the JVM) and Geb (a productivity focussed Groovy browser automation tool).

With a solid background in Enterprise Automation, Luke believes strongly that tools can and should empower software professionals to achieve and innovate, which puts him right at home at Gradleware.

Taking a break from the kangaroos and koalas of Australia, Luke is currently living the expat in London life and you'll often find him talking about Gradle and other topics at conferences and user groups throughout Europe and the World.



Presentations

Geb - Very Groovy Browser Automation

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 explore the foundations of Geb and illustrate how it uses the language features of Groovy to make web automation and testing productive and effective. After exploring the basics we'll explore Geb's rich Content DSL and discuss patterns for achieving maintainable tests. We'll also look at how it combines with Spock, the Enterprise ready testing framework, to enable low cost executable specifications that describe user behaviour, not browser details.

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.

We'll start with how the combination of Spock and the Groovy language makes it easy to bring the concept of “executable specifications” to the realm of unit testing, without the ceremony but with all of the benefits, and why this is so important to the health of your system.

From there we'll discuss extending Spock through its own Extension API and support for JUnit rules, which is one way to make your tests much more expressive and maintainable.

We'll close with Spock's seamless integration with Grails 2.0, and some hidden Spock treasures that help you get even more out of your testing.