Testing Kotlin at Scale: Spek

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A team migrates thousands of JUnit tests to Spek and shows concrete results: far less repeated boilerplate, tests become single-assertion it blocks organized into nested groups and beforeEach hooks, and shared state uses memoized per-test properties that reset automatically. Spek 2 uses JUnit 5 as the JVM reporting engine, aims for multiplatform (JS and native) and Android support, and integrates with common mocking and assertion libraries while improving IDE test-tree reporting.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 31:47structure your test code
3. 33:34iterating over some test values
4. 41:31add syntactic sugar for assertions
5. 43:37plan to support xml compatible reporting
6. 47:47support android instrumentation tests

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