Groovy Power Tools

Groovy provides many great productivity improvements for developers, but in many corporate environments, Groovy still is not accepted as a production supported language. Even in this type of environment, there are many required tasks of software development that are cumbersome to write and support for which there are great tools in Groovy that do not end up in production. So we get the advantage of higher productivity accelerating time to market at the same time supporting the corporate standard.

This session will look at a number of groovy based tools that add in the production of building and testing Java code. The tools evaluated in this session include, Groovy as a test tools, easyB as a behavior driven test tool, Spock as a mocking and data driven testing tool and gradle as a build tool.

These are mature and serious productivity tools that add significant business value of quick time to market without introducing Groovy to your production environment.

About Ken Sipe

Ken is a distributed application engineer. Ken has worked with Fortune 500 companies to small startups in the roles of developer, designer, application architect and enterprise architect. Ken's current focus is on containers, container orchestration, high scale micro-service design and continuous delivery systems.

Ken is an international speaker on the subject of software engineering speaking at conferences such as JavaOne, JavaZone, Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS), and The Strange Loop. He is a regular speaker with NFJS where he is best known for his architecture and security hacking talks. In 2009, Ken was honored by being awarded the JavaOne Rockstar Award at JavaOne in SF, California and the JavaZone Rockstar Award at JavaZone in Oslo, Norway as the top ranked speaker.

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