Groovy Spock and Maven 3.0

Here you can found a new version of HelloSpockPom for Maven 3.0. With Maven 3.0, you don't need anymore the Spock-maven plugin. And so you can use the last artifacts like bellow

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">

 <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 <groupId>hello</groupId>
 <artifactId>spock</artifactId>
 <version>1.0</version>
 <packaging>jar</packaging>
 <name>Hello Spock</name>

 <build>
  <plugins>
   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.gmaven</groupId>
    <artifactId>gmaven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.3</version>
    <configuration>
     <providerSelection>1.8</providerSelection>
     <source/>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
     <execution>
      <goals>
       <goal>testCompile</goal>
       <goal>compile</goal>
      </goals>
     </execution>
    </executions>
    <dependencies>
     <dependency>
      <groupId>org.codehaus.gmaven.runtime</groupId>
      <artifactId>gmaven-runtime-1.8</artifactId>
      <version>1.4</version>
      <exclusions>
       <exclusion>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
        <artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
       </exclusion>
      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
      <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
      <artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
      <version>1.8.5</version>
     </dependency>
    </dependencies>
   </plugin>
  </plugins>
 </build>

 <dependencies>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.spockframework</groupId>
   <artifactId>spock-core</artifactId>
   <version>0.5-groovy-1.8</version>
   <scope>test</scope>
   <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
     <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
     <artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
    </exclusion>
   </exclusions>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
   <artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
   <version>1.8.5</version>
  </dependency>
 </dependencies>
</project>

Vaadin and Groovy Test 2

Yesterday we created our first Vaadin application with Maven. Today as a true Agile Developer we will try to work with Vaadin with our testing tools.

Work on Acceptance Test
We will work on a simple calculator, with 9 buttons for the digits, 4 buttons for the operator (/, *, -, +) and an enter button, to display the result.
The first stories would be :

• As a User, when I push the button 2, +, 4, I expect have a result of 6
• As a User, I expect to see a classic calculator with the numbers in a grid of 3 x 3

Vaadin and Groovy Test

I had the chance to see a presentation of Vaadin with Nicolas Fränkel, who also write an interesting book "Learning Vaadin". Vaadin is a new Java web framework for making applications look great and perform well, making your users happy. He promises to make your user interfaces attractive and usable while easing your development effort and boosting your productivity. Vaadin change the way you write web application by thinking application and events process. That's a great news, write a Swing application or a web application will be the same. No more changing the way to write you app. So I grab a book edition and run on my computer to try Vaddin.

Creating a Maven Project
Before starting our Vaadin project you need to create a Maven project with the Vaadin Maven archetype as explain on Using Vaadin with Maven

mvn archetype:generate
-DarchetypeGroupId=com.vaadin
-DarchetypeArtifactId=vaadin-archetype-clean
-DarchetypeVersion=LATEST
-DgroupId=your.company 
-DartifactId=project-name
-Dversion=1.0
-Dpackaging=war

Running the Application
Your project should be ready now and you can launch a testing application with mvn jetty:run and then open your browser under http://localhost:8080/.

The pom has everything ready to work on your Vaadin application.