The purpose of this chapter was to give you sufficient background in both Gradle and Spock so that you are comfortable with them when we make reference to these tools later in the book. We covered enough material to serve this purpose, but for both Gradle and Spock, there is a lot more to learn. Gradle alone is the subject of several books, including one excellent title by this publisher, Packt Publishing.

In the next chapter, we will take a tour of the Groovy language. While this will not be a comprehensive guide of all aspects of the language, I will cover enough of the language so that you will be able to start coding in Groovy yourself, and start to follow the examples in the rest of the book.