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Simplified Test Automation Framework with Geb & Spock

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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra Simplified Test Automation with Geb This post is about the Geb & Spock (Groovy) automation framework which makes test automation extremely simple and powerful. It helps in jump starting the test automation with all the cutting edge automation features ready ... On using GEB & SPOCK framework, since beginning we are substantially far ahead compared to typical Selenium Webdriver Frameworks implemented in Java   which has some major issues and dilemmas as discussed below in detail: Using JAVA for TEST Automation…. 1 ).Java is verbose and very sophisticated and heavy language for the need of test automation .In short it is an overkill to use java for test automation. 2). But Java is Powerful!!!   On the other hand Java is extremely robust and powerful with tons of features like OOPS, which cannot be used/ implemented holistically i