Grails Plugin Testing Strategies

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Converts a Grails plugin into a full Grails app to run fast pure unit tests (Spock) plus mocked controller tests, real integration tests (database + bootstrap data), and functional UI tests with Geb + Selenium + ChromeDriver. Automates cross-version validation by installing Grails runtimes via GVM and running a scripted flight plan in the Grails Plugin Wind Tunnel that scaffolds an app, installs the plugin from the local Maven cache, launches it, and reports whether packaging and installation succeed.

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1. 0:00Introduction and setup
2. 1:52What is a Grails plugin
3. 3:38Testing plugin challenges
4. 6:29Making plugin testable
5. 14:54Excluding test dependencies
6. 16:40Unit testing basics
7. 25:04Service and controller unit tests
8. 31:12Integration testing
9. 38:10Functional UI testing
10. 51:43Testing across versions
11. 57:06Automating with GVM
12. 1:01:00Grails Plugin Wind Tunnel
13. 1:07:13Q&A and wrap-up

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