Spring has sprung and with that hails the first Vancouver Groovy and Grails meet of the year.

Time:

Monday 30th March, 18:00

Place:

WorkSpace @ 21 Water Street in Gastown, #400

Topics under the spotlight this time round are twofold:

• EasyB: BDD For Groovy & Grails (Jerome Pimmel)

EasyB leverages the Groovy language with a simple readable DSL for writing BDD style tests. But why BDD over TDD? Come and find out…

• Grails 1.1 Testing Lightning Talk (Geoff Webb)

Compared to 1.0.X versions (and compared to many languages too), Grails beds in an impressive amount of testing support to aid TDD . Testing integration pieces like controllers, taglibs or domain classes is now faster and less cumbersome; importantly they no longer require a Spring container and can often be run as simpler unit tests.

Hopefully this can be made into a more regular event with a variety of speakers who are interested in discussing other Groovy and Grails problem-solving-fu. If you have a topic you would like to share at a future event, please feel free to get in touch.