Luke Daley

Principal Engineer @ Gradleware

Luke Daley

Luke Daley is a member of the Gradleware engineering team. At Gradleware Luke works on Gradle (A JVM based build automation tool) and helps teams reach new levels of project automation and quality.

Luke is the lead of the Geb project (a productivity focussed Groovy browser automation/web testing tool) project which he created in 2010. You'll also find Luke contributing to other Open Source projects such as Grails (a Groovy web development framework), Spock (a next generation testing framework for the JVM) and anything else that catches his attention. With a “results over rhetoric” ethos, Luke's focus is on tools that empower software professionals to deliver and innovate, not try to save them from themselves.

Originally from Australia, Luke now resides in London where he spreads his time among work, software crafstmanship, musicianship and cursing the local weather.



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.