Installation

There are 3 preferred ways to install specs2:

• sbt
• maven
• gradle

SBT

First you need to install sbt itself then you need to add the following dependency:

libraryDependencies += "org.specs2" %% "specs2-core" % "3.8.5" % "test"

scalacOptions in Test ++= Seq("-Yrangepos")

See here to learn more about sbt dependencies.

Maven

You can install Maven from there. Once installed, you need to create a pom.xml file with the maven-scala-plugin. In the pom.xml file you can add the following dependency:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  ...
<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.specs2</groupId>
    <artifactId>specs2-core_2.11</artifactId>
    <version>3.8.5</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>
  ...
</project>

Gradle

Go to this page to install Gradle. You then need to install the Scala plugin and add the following to your build.gradle file:

repositories {
  maven {
     url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases"
  }
}

dependencies {
  testCompile "org.specs2:specs2-core_2.11:3.8.5"
}

Other dependencies

Depending on the specs2 features you want to use you will need to add more dependencies to your build:

Name	Functionality
specs2-matcher-extra	for the optional specs2 matchers
specs2-cats	for the cats matchers
specs2-scalacheck	to use ScalaCheck properties in specifications
specs2-mock	to use Mockito matchers
specs2-analysis	to use the package dependencies matcher
specs2-gwt	to write given/when/then specifications
specs2-html	to export specifications as html
specs2-form	to create html form-like specifications
specs2-junit	to run specifications as JUnit tests

Note: the specs2-core jar depends on 2 other specs2 jars:

Name	Functionality
specs2-common	utility classes for text, collections, xml,…
specs2-matcher	common specs2 matchers. They can be used as a stand-alone library with JUnit