15 About the Project

The Geb home page can be found at http://www.gebish.org.

15.1 API Reference

15.2 Support & Development

Support for Geb is offered on the user@geb.codehaus.org mailing list, which can be subscribed to here.

Ideas and new features for Geb can be discussed on the dev@geb.codehaus.org mailing list, which can be subscribed to here.

15.3 Credits

15.3.1 Committers

15.3.2 Contributors

Alexander Zolotov - TestNG Integration

15.4 History

This page lists the high level changes between versions of Geb.

15.4.1 0.6

15.4.1.1 New Features

selenium-common is now a 'provided' scoped dependency of Geb
Radio buttons can be selected with their label text as well as their value attribute.
Select options can be selected with their text as well as their value attribute.
Navigator.getAttribute returns null rather than the empty string when an attribute is not found.
The jquery property on Navigator now returns whatever the jQuery method called on it returns.
All waitFor clauses now treat exceptions raised in the condition as an evaluation failure, instead of propagation the exception
Content can be defined with wait: true to make Geb implicitly wait for it when it is requested
Screenshots are now taken when reporting for all drivers that implement the TakesScreenshot interface (which is nearly all)
Added BindingUpdater class that can manage a groovy script binding for use with Geb
Added quit() and close() methods to browser that delegate to the underlying driver instance
geb.Browser.drive() methods now return the used Browser instance
The underlying WebElements of a Navigator are now retrievable
Added $() methods that take one or more Navigator or WebElement objects and returns a new Navigator composed of these objects
Added Direct Download API which can be used for directly downloading content (PDFs, CSVs etc.) into your Geb program (not via the browser)
Introduced new configuration mechanism for more flexible and environment sensitive configuration of Geb (e.g. driver implementation, base url)
Default wait timeout and retry interval is now configurable, and can now also use user configuration presets (e.g. quick, slow)
Added a “build adapter” mechanism, making it easier for build systems to take control of relevant configuration
The JUnit 3 integration now includes the test method name in the automatically generated reports
The reporting support has been rewritten, making it much friendlier to use outside of testing
Added the TestNG support (contributed by Alexander Zolotov)
Added the height, width, x and y properties to navigator objects and modules

15.4.1.2 Breaking Changes

Raised minimum Groovy version to 1.7
All failed waitFor clauses now throw a geb.waiting.WaitTimeoutException instead of AssertionError
Upgraded minimum version requirement of WebDriver to 2.0rc1
The onLoad() and onUnload() page methods both have changed their return types from def to void
The Grails specific testing subclasses have been REMOVED. Use the direct equivalent instead (e.g geb.spock.GebReportingSpec instead of grails.plugin.geb.GebSpec)
The Grails plugin no longer depends on the test integration modules, you need to depend on the one you want manually
The getBaseUrl() method from testing subclasses has been removed, use the configuration mechanism

15.4.2 0.5.1

Fixed problem with incorrectly compiled specs and the geb grails module

15.4.3 0.5

15.4.3.1 New Features

Navigator objects now implement the Groovy truth (empty == false, non empty == true)
Introduced “js” short notation
Added “easyb” support (geb-easyb and Grails support)
Page change listening support through geb.PageChangeListener
waitFor() methods added, making dealing with dynamic pages easier
Support for alert() and confirm() dialogs
Added jQuery integration
Reporting integration classes (e.g. GebReportingSpec) now save a screenshot if using the FirefoxDriver
Added displayed property to navigator objects for determining visibility
Added find as an alias for $ (e.g. find("div.section"))
Browser objects now implement the page(List<Class>) method that sets the page to the first type whose at-checker matches the page
The click() methods that take one or more page classes are now available on Navigator objects
Added page lifecycle methods onLoad()/onUnload()

15.4.3.2 Breaking Changes

Exceptions raised in drive() blocks are no longer wrapped with DriveException
the at(Class pageClass) method no longer requires the existing page instance to be of that class (page will be updated if the given type matches)

15.4.4 0.4

Initial Public Release