Entries tagged with «testing»

I finally got around to continue working / hacking / having fun with the Spock extension I started working out before Christmas. The project is still far, far away from being stable or usable. The latest changes are all about trying to come up with a nice API for testing REST / HTTP services.

I'm in the progress of writing my first Spock extension. I needed to test some http client code in a project and figured that it would be a perfect opportunity to look at the Spock extension API.

One of my biggest annoyances with dynamic languages like Groovy is the long time it takes between a spelling error and detection. Would it make sense to make IDE's warn you about likely spelling mistakes kinda like Word does when you're writing good old fashion documents?