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This sample shows how to expand the testing coverage of a Gradle plugin to multiple Gradle distributions. The project is a simple Gradle plugin implemented in Java with a functional test using Gradle fixtures maintained by the Nokee team.

build.gradle
plugins {
	id 'dev.gradleplugins.java-gradle-plugin' version '1.2'
	id 'dev.gradleplugins.gradle-plugin-functional-test' version '1.2'
}

gradlePlugin {
	plugins {
		helloWorld {
			id = 'com.example.hello'
			implementationClass = 'com.example.BasicPlugin'
		}
	}
}

repositories {
	mavenCentral()
}

functionalTest {
	testingStrategies = [strategies.coverageForMinimumVersion, strategies.coverageForLatestGlobalAvailableVersion, strategies.coverageForLatestNightlyVersion]
	dependencies {
		implementation spockFramework()
		implementation groovy()
		implementation gradleFixtures()		(1)
		implementation gradleTestKit()
	}
}
build.gradle.kts
plugins {
	id("dev.gradleplugins.java-gradle-plugin") version("1.2")
	id("dev.gradleplugins.gradle-plugin-functional-test") version("1.2")
}

gradlePlugin {
	plugins {
		create("helloWorld") {
			id = "com.example.hello"
			implementationClass = "com.example.BasicPlugin"
		}
	}
}

repositories {
	mavenCentral()
}

functionalTest {
	testingStrategies.set(listOf(strategies.coverageForMinimumVersion, strategies.coverageForLatestGlobalAvailableVersion, strategies.coverageForLatestNightlyVersion))
	dependencies {
		implementation(spockFramework())
		implementation(groovy())
		implementation(gradleFixtures())	(1)
		implementation(gradleTestKit())
	}
}
1 The Nokee team maintains the Gradle fixtures which cover common testing scenarios and are testing strategy aware. The Gradle executer will honour the selected testing strategy for the Test task. Read the testing strategy section to learn more.

To build and test the plugin:

$ ./gradlew check

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
9 actionable tasks: 9 executed

Gradle executes the test suites for all testing coverage, which is minimum supported Gradle, latest released Gradle and latest nightly. The reports are available at their conventional location:

$ ls ./build/reports/tests
functionalTestLatestGlobalAvailable
functionalTestLatestNightly
functionalTestMinimumGradle

The build scan displays the test events:

Build scan showing the test events from all testing strategies.

The developer can choose which coverage to execute directly from the IDE:

Developer experience from IDE for testing strategies.

For more information, see Gradle Plugin Development reference chapters and user manual chapter.