Graphene 1.0.0.Final Released

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The Arquillian team is proud to announce the 1.0.0.Final release of the Graphene component!

Graphene is joining rest of the Arquillian party, building on top of Arquillian testing platform Drone extension, both which reached their first stable version yesterday.

The Mission

Arquillian Graphene focuses on making real-browser automation a breeze.

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 Community artifact 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 Graphene in a Maven project, you can simply update the version to 1.0.0.Final.

You can start with the tests using our Getting Started with the JBoss Maven repository 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 shortcomings 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!

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Release details

Component	Graphene
Version	1.0.0.Final view tag
Release date	2012-04-11
Released by	Lukas Fryc
Compiled against	Arquillian Core – 1.0.0.Final Arquillian Drone Extension – 1.0.0.Final

Published artifacts org.jboss.arquillian.graphene

org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-parent pom
org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-selenium-parent pom
org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-selenium-api jar javadoc pom
org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-selenium-impl jar javadoc pom
org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-selenium-drone jar javadoc pom
org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » graphene-selenium pom
org.jboss.arquillian.graphene » arquillian-graphene pom

Release notes and resolved issues 8

Component Upgrade

ARQGRA-140 - Upgrade to Arquillian Core/Drone 1.0.0.Final

Feature Request

ARQGRA-142 - Refactor Graphene 1 to allow addition of Graphene 2 bits
ARQGRA-143 - Add license file to the project
ARQGRA-144 - Add section about Drone/Graphene usage in Getting Started guide

Bug

ARQGRA-137 - SLF4J is no longer required

Task

ARQGRA-93 - Add README to the GitHub repository
ARQGRA-139 - Blog about releasing Graphene 1 Final
ARQGRA-145 - Update dependency versions in docs

Thanks to the following list of contributors: Lukas Fryc

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