Question

In some other testing frameworks I’m used to tagging tests, eg @really_slow, @front_end

And then running different batches of tests, like I might want to set up a build slave to run all the really_slow tests, and might want to run all the tests tagged as front end but none that are marked as really slow.

To run my spock+geb tests in grails at the moment I just run grails test-app functional:

How do I tell it to run a subset?

Answer 1

You could use JUnit suites with @Category. Or you could use a SpockConfig.groovy with the following contents:

runner {
    include foo.bar.FrontEnd, foo.bar.BackEnd
    exclude foo.bar.Slow
}

Here, foo.bar.FrontEnd, foo.bar.BackEnd, and foo.bar.Slow are your own annotations. To activate the configuration file, you have to set a spock.configuration system property pointing to it.