Groovy Feature: Testing Source Code in Comments

Groovy comes with a seemingly endless number of simplifications for programmers. One of them is a class called JavadocAssertionTestSuite [0]. Source Code Examples in JavaDoc Comments Especially for library/framework...

Gr8Conf 2013 - Second Conference Day

Is Groovy as Fast as Java? The day started with a talk by Dr. Russel Winder....

Gr8Conf 2013 - First Conference Day

Today the first Gr8Conf [0] conference day took place. Gr8Conf is a conference completely dedicated to the Groovy & Grails ecosystem.

Gr8Conf 2013 - Zero Conference Day

Gr8Conf [0] - a conference dedicated to the Groovy/Grails ecosystem - started for me with our arrival at the annual Hackergarten. The concept of Hackergartens has been introduced [

GContracts 1.2.11 Released!

I am happy to announce the release of GContracts 1.2.11. The new version comes with a couple of important bug fixes, improved closure expression validation and IDE support for...

GContracts 1.2.11 Sneak Peak - Improved IDE Support

GContracts [0] is a "Design-by-Contract" implementation for Groovy. It adds the concept of programming by contract to the Groovy programming language by adding a single JAR file without third-party...

Groovy 2.1: Type Checking Extensions

As of Groovy 2.0, the static type checking and compilation annotations @CompileStatic and @TypeChecked [0][1] can be applied on types and methods. Type checking helps us identify typing...