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The Arquillian team is proud to announce the 1.1.0.CR2 release of the Arquillian Drone Extension component!

Some of the Highlights in This Release

Drone 1.1.0.CR2 is a bugfix release form the previous 1.1.0 CR release. We fixed browserCapability usage, reusing browers sessions and Selenium Server user extensions support.

Big thanks to the community

I’d like to thank Arquillian Drone Community, especially Ste Gr and Simon Søndergaard for helping us test and patch the release by proactively using new features.
It’s a pleasure to work with you guys!

What is Arquillian?

Arquillian is open source software that empowers you to test JVM-based applications more effectively. Created to defend the software galaxy from bugs, Arquillian brings your test to the runtime so you can focus on testing your application's behavior rather than managing the runtime. Using Arquillian, you can develop a comprehensive suite of tests from the convenience of your IDE and run them in any IDE, build tool or continuous integration environment.

Release details

Component	Arquillian Drone Extension
Version	1.1.0.CR2 view tag
Release date	2012-07-18
Released by	Lukas Fryc
Compiled against	Arquillian Core – 1.0.0.Final Selenium – 2.24.1

Published artifacts org.jboss.arquillian.extension

• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-bom pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-selenium-depchain pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-webdriver-depchain pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-api jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-spi jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-configuration jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-impl jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-selenium-server jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-selenium jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-webdriver jar javadoc pom

Release notes and resolved issues 6

Bug

• ARQ-1021 - Internet Explorer could not be created from capabilities
• ARQ-1022 - BrowserCapability overrides direct @Drone class type
• ARQ-1023 - Selenium Server does not load user extensions
• ARQ-1026 - Selenium session is not persisted to a file store when file does not exists
• ARQ-1030 - Driving capabilities using arquillin.xml does not work
• ARQ-1031 - Drone doesn't remove non-reusable sessions from the queue

Thanks to the following list of contributors: Karel Piwko, Lukas Fryc, Jan Papoušek, Simon Søndergaard

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The Arquillian team is proud to announce the 1.1.0.CR1 release of the Arquillian Drone Extension component!

Some of the Highlights in This Release

• underlying Selenium upgraded to 2.24.1
• support for Opera browser added
• webdriver configuration improved
• reusable session for RemoteWebDriver introduced

Configuration Improvement

Have you ever been stucked because you didn’t remember full qualified class name of the webdriver you wanted to use in your tests? Last Drone version required setting of implementationClass property and we should admit it wasn’t really comfortable. So we present a new property called browserCapabilities which can have the following values: android, chrome, firefox, htmlUnit, internetExplorer, iphone and opera. The values ​​correspond to the factory methods of DesiredCapabilities class.

We have also enabled webdriver configuration via Capabilities interface. Now you can use the configuration as you know it from documentation of each webdriver. Use capability prefix and camel case instead of dots in the property name to set the capability value.

So assume you want to use Firefox browser and specify the path to its binary file. We know webdriver.firefox.bin configuration property from FirefoxDriver documention.

<extension qualifier="webdriver">
    <property name="browserCapabilities">firefox</property>
    <property name="capabilityWebdriverFirefoxBin">/path/to/my/firefox/installation/firefox</property>
</extension>

Reusable Session for RemoteWebDriver

To increase your productivity in test development Drone presents a new feature to reuse session from previous test execution. Skip creating a new session to save your time. You can check the speed-up in the following table. The table contains time needed to run a test (including deployment on JBoss AS 7.1.1.Final).

	Common Session	Reusable Session
Firefox	3.98 ± 0.27 s	2.15 ± 0.15 s
Google Chrome	4.75 ± 0.03 s	2.57 ± 0.05 s

The feature requires standalone selenium server running, remoteReusable enabled and remoteAddress pointed to your selenium server.

<extension qualifier="webdriver">
    <property name="browserCapabilities">firefox</property>
    <property name="remoteReusable">true</property>
    <property name="remoteAddress">http://localhost:4444/wd/hub</property>
</extension>

Using the reusable session the browser stays open after the test completion, so all its settings are kept alive. If you need to debug your tests on the client side, you can easily prepare break points in the browser and run tests with remoteReusable flag.

After the proper configuration of reusable session RemoteWebDriver will be chosen automatically. That means you have to use compatible types in your test code (WebDriver ideally).

public void testMethod(@Drone WebDriver driver) {
    // test code
}

What is Arquillian?

Arquillian is open source software that empowers you to test JVM-based applications more effectively. Created to defend the software galaxy from bugs, Arquillian brings your test to the runtime so you can focus on testing your application's behavior rather than managing the runtime. Using Arquillian, you can develop a comprehensive suite of tests from the convenience of your IDE and run them in any IDE, build tool or continuous integration environment.

Release details

Component	Arquillian Drone Extension
Version	1.1.0.CR1 view tag
Release date	2012-06-27
Released by	Lukas Fryc
Compiled against	Arquillian Core – 1.0.0.Final Selenium – 2.24.1

Published artifacts org.jboss.arquillian.extension

• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-bom pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-selenium-depchain pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-webdriver-depchain pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-api jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-spi jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-configuration jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-impl jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-selenium-server jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-selenium jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-drone-webdriver jar javadoc pom

Release notes and resolved issues 6

Support for Reusable sessions

Feature Request

• ARQ-847 - Support OperaDriver in Drone
• ARQ-926 - Fast development turnaround using Selenium Server and RemoteWebDriver session reusal
• ARQ-995 - Allow Arquillian Drone configuration to map java.util.Map for property values

Task

• ARQ-868 - Update Selenium version to 2.24.1
• ARQ-970 - Drone: Merge tests for reusable remote session

Sub-task

• ARQ-927 - Configuration for RemoteWebDriver Drone extension

Thanks to the following list of contributors: Lukas Fryc, Jan Papoušek, Karel Piwko, Aslak Knutsen

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The Arquillian team is proud to announce the 1.0.0.Alpha2 release of the Arquillian Extension Byteman component!

What is Arquillian?

Arquillian is open source software that empowers you to test JVM-based applications more effectively. Created to defend the software galaxy from bugs, Arquillian brings your test to the runtime so you can focus on testing your application's behavior rather than managing the runtime. Using Arquillian, you can develop a comprehensive suite of tests from the convenience of your IDE and run them in any IDE, build tool or continuous integration environment.

Release details

Component	Arquillian Extension Byteman
Version	1.0.0.Alpha2 view tag
Release date	2012-06-05
Released by	Aslak Knutsen
Compiled against	Arquillian Core – 1.0.1.Final

Published artifacts org.jboss.arquillian.extension

• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-extension-byteman jar javadoc pom

Release notes and resolved issues 2

Support for Client JVM instrumentation

Feature Request

• ARQ-737 - Support Byteman Rules in client mode

Thanks to the following list of contributors: Aslak Knutsen

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The Arquillian team is proud to announce the 1.0.1.Final release of the Arquillian Core component!

The first maintenance release of the Arquillian 1.0 series is out. The release focus mainly on fixing some dependency scope problems introduced in the 1.0.0.Final Arquillian BOM.

The following components have been upgraded, which are defined in the Arquillian BOM:

• ShrinkWrap 1.0.1
• ShrinkWrap Resolver 1.0.0-beta-7
• ShrinkWrap Descriptors 2.0.0-alpha-3

What is Arquillian?

Arquillian is open source software that empowers you to test JVM-based applications more effectively. Created to defend the software galaxy from bugs, Arquillian brings your test to the runtime so you can focus on testing your application's behavior rather than managing the runtime. Using Arquillian, you can develop a comprehensive suite of tests from the convenience of your IDE and run them in any IDE, build tool or continuous integration environment.

Release details

Component	Arquillian Core
Version	1.0.1.Final view tag
Release date	2012-06-01
Released by	Aslak Knutsen
Compiled against	ShrinkWrap – 1.0.1 ShrinkWrap Descriptors – 2.0.0-alpha-3 JUnit – 4.8.1 TestNG – 5.14.6

Published artifacts org.jboss.arquillian.core

• org.jboss.arquillian.core » arquillian-core-api jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.core » arquillian-core-spi jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.core » arquillian-core-impl-base jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.config » arquillian-config-api jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.config » arquillian-config-spi jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.config » arquillian-config-impl-base jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.test » arquillian-test-api jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.test » arquillian-test-spi jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.test » arquillian-test-impl-base jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.container » arquillian-container-spi jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.container » arquillian-container-impl-base jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.container » arquillian-container-test-api jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.container » arquillian-container-test-spi jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.container » arquillian-container-test-impl-base jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.junit » arquillian-junit-core jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.junit » arquillian-junit-standalone jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.junit » arquillian-junit-container jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.testng » arquillian-testng-core jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.testng » arquillian-testng-standalone jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.testng » arquillian-testng-container jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.testenricher » arquillian-testenricher-cdi jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.testenricher » arquillian-testenricher-ejb jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.testenricher » arquillian-testenricher-resource jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.testenricher » arquillian-testenricher-initialcontext jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.protocol » arquillian-protocol-servlet jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.protocol » arquillian-protocol-jmx jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian » arquillian-bom pom

Release notes and resolved issues 5

Maintenance release

Enhancement

• ARQ-846 - Protect ExceptionProxy againts Non-Serializable origin

Feature Request

• ARQ-971 - DeploymentGenerator should allow AuxiliaryArchiveAppenders to return null Archives

Bug

• ARQ-793 - Arquillian config-impl-base is not a part of junit|testng-standalone
• ARQ-889 - Arquillian BOM causes ShrinkWrap dependencies to be included in the lib folder of a WAR archive

Thanks to the following list of contributors: Aslak Knutsen, Bernard Labno

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The Arquillian team is proud to announce the 1.0.1 release of the ShrinkWrap component!

What is ShrinkWrap?

ShrinkWrap is the simplest way to create archives in Java. Using the fluent and intuitive ShrinkWrap API, developers may assemble JARs, WARs, and EARs to be deployed directly by Arquillian during testing.

Release details

Component	ShrinkWrap
Version	1.0.1 view tag
Release date	2012-05-31
Released by	Andrew Lee Rubinger
Compiled against	JUnit – 4.8.2

Published artifacts org.jboss.shrinkwrap

• org.jboss.shrinkwrap » shrinkwrap-api jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.shrinkwrap » shrinkwrap-bom pom
• org.jboss.shrinkwrap » shrinkwrap-depchain pom
• org.jboss.shrinkwrap » shrinkwrap-impl-base jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.shrinkwrap » shrinkwrap-spi jar javadoc pom

Release notes and resolved issues 2

Feature Request

• SHRINKWRAP-409 - Create branch for 1.0.x

Bug

• SHRINKWRAP-410 - Scoped artifacts in ShrinkWrap BOM

Thanks to the following list of contributors: Andrew Lee Rubinger