How to make your testing more Groovy

Testing can be a complex and thankless task. The technologies change so fast that your tools don't work as they should or you have to write lots of low-level boiler-plate code that is obsolete almost as soon as it's written. Your tests are brittle and hard to relate to customer requirements - you aren't even sure that you are testing the right things. Let's explore some techniques and tools for easing some of these burdens and try to move testing from tedious and hard to easier and fun!

We quickly sample a flavor of many techniques and tools including these topics: * Using Easyb for BDD flavored acceptance tests * developer testing using JUnit 4, TestNG, Instinct, Spock and GMock * writing domain specific testing languages (testing DSLs) * testing web applications with WebTest, Tellurium, Selenium and WebDriver * testing RESTful and SOAP flavored web services * testing databases with DbUnit * testing rich clients and GUIs with FEST * performance testing with JMeter * leveraging AllPairs, All combinations and other testing techniques * model driven testing

About Paul King

Paul King leads ASERT, an organization based in Brisbane, Australia which provides software development, training and mentoring services to customers wanting to embrace new technologies, harness best practices and innovate. He has been contributing to open source projects for nearly 20 years and is an active committer on numerous projects including Groovy. Paul speaks at international conferences, publishes in software magazines and journals, and is a co-author of Manning's best-seller: Groovy in Action.

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