Luke Daley

Gradle Plugin Best Practices

8:30 PM MDT

One of Gradle's attractive features is that plugins are extremely simple to write and can do anything. Gradle plugins can add new functionality, enhance existing functionality or even remove undesired functionality. If you've ever wanted to write a Gradle plugin, or are interested in the deep details of plugins, then this session is for you.

In this session we'll explore some fundamental concepts that can be used as guidelines when developing plugins and new Gradle functionality, and the role of plugins and how they can be used.

We'll look at issues such as; how to implement flexible tasks, how to support convention over configuration while maintaining flexibility, how to structure plugin stacks, building and distributing plugins and testing your plugins. We'll be developing a sample plugin during the session and discussing other real world example plugins.

Next Level Spock

11:00 AM MDT

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.

Managing JavaScript with Gradle

5:00 PM MDT

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.

Functionally Testing Modern Web Applications with Geb

10:45 AM MDT

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.