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= Introduction

Spock is a testing and specification framework for Java and Groovy applications. What makes it stand out from the crowd
is its beautiful and highly expressive specification language. Thanks to its JUnit runner, Spock is compatible with most
IDEs, build tools, and continuous integration servers. Spock is inspired from http://junit.org/[JUnit],
http://www.jmock.org/[jMock], http://rspec.info/[RSpec], http://groovy-lang.org/[Groovy], http://scala-lang.org/[Scala],
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(Star_Trek)[Vulcans], and other fascinating life forms.