Guide for Testing Gradle Scripts

Question

What are the best practices for testing Gradle Scripts?

I currently unit test my ant scripts with antunit, but I\'m looking to migrate to Gradle. I can only find art

Answer 1

Gradle 3.x test Toolkit available! Please, check out userguide here: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/test_kit.html

The correctness of the logic can then be verified by asserting the following, potentially in combination:

• The build's output;
• The build's logging (i.e. console output);
• The set of tasks executed by the build and their results (e.g. FAILED, UP-TO-DATE etc.).

copy-pasted example:

import org.gradle.testkit.runner.BuildResult;
import org.gradle.testkit.runner.GradleRunner;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.rules.TemporaryFolder;

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collections;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import static org.gradle.testkit.runner.TaskOutcome.*;

public class BuildLogicFunctionalTest {
    @Rule public final TemporaryFolder testProjectDir = new TemporaryFolder();
    private File buildFile;

    @Before
    public void setup() throws IOException {
        buildFile = testProjectDir.newFile("build.gradle");
    }

    @Test
    public void testHelloWorldTask() throws IOException {
        String buildFileContent = "task helloWorld {" +
                                  "    doLast {" +
                                  "        println 'Hello world!'" +
                                  "    }" +
                                  "}";
        writeFile(buildFile, buildFileContent);

        BuildResult result = GradleRunner.create()
            .withProjectDir(testProjectDir.getRoot())
            .withArguments("helloWorld")
            .build();

        assertTrue(result.getOutput().contains("Hello world!"));
        assertEquals(result.task(":helloWorld").getOutcome(), SUCCESS);
    }

    private void writeFile(File destination, String content) throws IOException {
        BufferedWriter output = null;
        try {
            output = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(destination));
            output.write(content);
        } finally {
            if (output != null) {
                output.close();
            }
        }
    }
}