Graphene 1.0.0.Final Released

The Arquillian Graphene, the project focusing on making a real-browser automation a breeze, is now reaching first Final release.

The Graphene is joining rest of the Arquillian party, building on top of Arquillian framework integration and Drone extension, which reached their stable version yesterday.

The Mission

The project was started to address simplification of covering AJAX-enabled applications with browser automation tests.

While Selenium project is focusing on unified API, integration with variety of browsers, Graphene project is addressing the real-world testing challenges:

• rapid development
• straight-forward
• readable API
• fast turnaround
• object-oriented
• type-safe API
• dependency injection of thread-local context
• instabilities and speed of execution in continuous integration
• jQuery selectors
• request guards

Availability

The Graphene bits are available in JBoss Maven repository, dual-licensed under LGPL v2.1 (backward-compatibility) and ASL v2.0 (which uses rest of the Arquillian sub-projects).

For those who are already using the framework with Maven, you can simply increase the version to 1.0.0.Final.

You can start with the tests using our Getting StartJBoss Maven repositoryed guide.

The Future

Right now we are heavily working on making the new version of Graphene 2 on the road.

Selenium 2 with its WebDriver API made huge progress with API accessibility and readability - it's already pleasure to work with this API in Java world.

However still there are many lacks we are going to address with Graphene 2, building on top of concepts brought in Graphene 1 and adding new features, which opens world of new possibilities:

• dependency injection of thread-local context
• fast development turnaround
• cross-cutting concerns (command interception)
• request guards
• page extensions
• component objects
• extension of page objects concept
• JavaScript test execution from within Selenium test

If you enjoy testing and you are unsatisfied with the current browser automation tooling, it's perfect time to step in and help us to bring the future!

The Project Info

Source code: https://github.com/arquillian/arquillian-graphene

Documentation: https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/ARQGRA/Home

Issue tracker: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ARQGRA