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Spock Testing

This is a copy/MD-conversion of the original article by Lukasz Janicki: Spock Testing – Spock tutorial – The Javatar . The webpage is no longer available, but this cheat-sheet is too good to loose! A simpler full demo of a Spock implementation can also be found here.

What is Spock?

Spock is a unit testing framework that in great extent utilizes Groovy’s syntax making your tests comprehensible and easy on the eyes. Although it is a Groovy technology you can use it to test your Java classes as well. What is the most important is that Spock makes writing tests fun. And I really mean it.

Why Spock?

I have to admit that even knowing all the benefits of TDD and tests over all I considered writing them as little pain in the neck. How has that changed when I started using Spock?

1. Creating a test in Spock takes less time than using its sta

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# AUTO-KILL iCoreService using more than 60% CPU
# run as super user (sudo ./auto-kill-process.sh)

while true
do
	PID=$(ps aux | grep 'iCoreService' | grep -v grep | awk '{ if ($3 >= 60.0) { print $2 } }' | head -n 1)
	if [ ! -z "$PID" ]
		then
			kill -9 $PID
			date >> iCoreService-kills.log