Get rid of groovy tests?

[sebastian-peter]

Since there's only been a handful of groovy tests, I think it might make sense just getting rid of them.

Arguments pro:

• Less maintenance effort (there's been some hours poured into this):
  • CI
  • code formatting
  • dependency updates
  • ...
• Less languages/test frameworks to learn for beginners
• In some parts, referencing Scala code in groovy is cumbersome
• Tests could be converted to ScalaTest, which also provides data driven testing

Arguments contra:

• Some, but not too much effort to convert
• Data driven testing in ScalaTest is slightly less neat/convenient

Let's discuss!

[t-ober]

I'm totally for getting rid of the groovy tests.

[danielfeismann]

Same here. I think these are good tasks for hiwi's

[sebastian-peter]

Ok I'd say we have an agreement here, I opened #646