The Disco Blog

The easyb team is proud to announce version 0.9.5 is now live. It has been a long time coming and this version is jam-packed with new features, baby! Behavior driven development in Java just can’t get any more fun (nor could it get any easier)!

At a high level, this version includes:

• HTML reports
• Just pass in the -html flag via the command line or specify the reporting format as html via the Ant/Maven task
• Enhanced exception reporting
• easyb offers two options:
• -e for a full exception stack trace
• -ef for exception stack trace filtering — that is, a lot of the noise associated with a Groovy exception stack is filtered out
• Support for ignoring scenarios
• ignore is a hip keyword now in stories and it can take as an argument a scenario name, a list of scenario names, and even a regular expression
• Pretty printing
• Pass in the -prettyprint flag and the output will be nicely colored, baby!
• Narratives support non underscores
  • as_a can alternately be
    written as as a along with i want and so that
• Numerous API improvements along with bug fixes!
• For instance, the ensureThrows takes a list of exceptions now
• This version leverages Groovy 1.6.0

Please note, this version has changed the package names — previous versions’ package names started with org.disco.easyb.*. We’ve corrected things and removed the disco portion; consequently, all easyb package names are org.easyb.*. This version also has an enhanced plug-in mechanism (which leverages a new keyword, using) for integration with other frameworks — for instance, we anticipate these changes will facilitate easier integration with Grails 1.1.

Thanks to the community for numerous suggestions, comments, and patches! We anticipate that this will be the final version before we release a 1.0 candidate. So what are you waiting for? Download easyb 0.9.5 now and have a blast, baby!