Groovy is a good language to code JUnit test cases. Groovy is easy to learn, short to code, and simple to read. Today I changed my pom.xml to use Groovy 2.0 with JUnit 4.11, so I will share my change for you.
how to edit your pom.xml
What you have to add is not only gmaven-plugin, but also gmaven.runtime property to specify version of Groovy.
Of course you have to add a dependency on Groovy itself, you can use test
scope so it does not affect your package.
Your Groovy script should be put into src/test/groovy
. Do not forget to use 'Test' as suffix when name your classes, because surefire-plugin needs it.
<project> <properties> <gmaven.runtime>2.0</gmaven.runtime> </properties> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.codehaus.gmaven</groupId> <artifactId>gmaven-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.5</version> <executions> <execution> <id>default-testCompile</id> <phase>test-compile</phase> <goals> <goal>testCompile</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId> <artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId> <version>2.0.6</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> </project>