easyb 0.9.7 is on the streets

The easyb team has recently released version 0.9.7, which contains a scattering of features and fixes including one of my favorites: behavior tagging. Briefly, behavior tagging permits the isolation of behavior groups. Much like TestNG’s group annotation, tags in easyb allow you to selectively execute a group of behaviors — this is a handy feature on a number of fronts, not the least of which is test categorization.

What’s more, version 0.9.7 now supports the ability to generate a report of all behaviors without having to run the suite itself; that is, you can generate a listing of all behaviors, which will be marked as “in review” — this is distinctly different than a “pending” state as “in review” behaviors could be either implemented or not; what’s more, they could even be failing. The intent of “in review” is for reviewing the natural language behaviors (i.e. goals) with team members, stakeholder, etc.

Version 0.9.7 also leverages Groovy 1.7.2; plus, there are a few DSL changes, such as but is now supported (works just like and) along with shared_behavior can now be written without the underscore (i.e. shared behavior — this is much like narrative‘s as a and i want).

For more information about what’s in 0.9.7 check out the release page. You can find the 0.9.7 download on easyb’s project page. Thanks to everyone in the community for your support!