Thanks to the help of david, I can answer my question number 2:
When you right-click > "Run / Debug Grails ... Command" from within NetBeans, simply double-click "interactive" from the list.
Then, in the new shell, enter the test that you want to run without grails. For instance. onlytest-app unit:spock -coverage ExampleController
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