How to use Spock framework for test automation instead of Cucumber in Katalon Studio?

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Need to integrate the Spock framework structure for test automation in Katalon Studio
Could please guide me the steps:

  1. How to integrate the required libraries?
  2. How to run a script?
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If you are already familiar with Spock framework and want to carry out your UI testing with it, then you are able to make a UI testing project with WebDriver + Spock + Gradle like the example, aren’t you? Why do you bother yourself for bringing Spock into Katalon Studio? Just messy, I think.

Trying to import the jar file of Spock and related libraries into the Drivers folder of your project would be possible by using com.katalon.gradle-plugin as described in Using AWS SDK in Katalon Studio, how to resolve external dependencies with Gradle.

You would be able to find a way to run a Spock-based scripts.

But in the end you would be disappointed that you can not obtain a good report from the tests ---- all you will obtain is the output into System.out. No pretty-formated reports will be available.

As for Cucumber, Katalon Team has integrated it into the Katalon Studio. I suppose that significant portion of their efforts were made for good reporting. You would miss it for Spock in KS.

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I have ever tried to run JUnit4 based tests in Katalon Studio.

In this example, you might find what is possible, and what is not.

By the junit4ks project, I learned that I can not obtain a “pretty formated test report” in KS. This shortage will apply to you and Spock as well.

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Thanks for the update

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Thanks for sharing the details.


It’s really helpful for writing and executing jUnit test cases with the custom keyword.