Grails Hacker Triage: 10 Shameless Hacks and Refactors

Grails productivity can be a drug - and the productivity rush can lead to a whole lot of untested, unmaintainable code. If you're written one of these bad boys, or have just take over someone else's messy Grails app, you might not know where to get started in moving your codebase to something that you are actually happy to work with. We'll cover 10 painful but classic hacks/shortcuts in Controllers, Services, Views, Taglibs & Bootstraps and how to fix them!

This hands-on talk introduces you to all the built-in Grails Unit testing infrastructure using Spock - a great new framework for simple expressible tests while we refactor 10 common Grails hacks that need work. We will be covering off 10 classic Grails hacks that affect all the core artifacts in Grails applications. If you've been putting off testing your Grails app, or found it too onerous to make happen, this is the talk for you! It's a fully interactive session, so bring your experiences and your war stories.