Geb popularity and future

[Jakub]

Good afternoon,

I must say I find Geb very powerful, productive and intuitive, and I think it's really an elegant way of automating the UI tests. I would have questions regarding popularity of the framework and its future.

1) Do you think there is a solid confidence that the tool will be supported also in future? Do you, for example, happen to consider showing on the website who already uses Geb? I think engineers and companies would become more confident about the right selection of automated tool if they knew who else had already used it.

2) Are there any future plans for Geb?

As for learning materials - to me the documentation is really cool and very understandable - do you, for instance, plan to record more videos about Geb?

Thank you in advance for answer.

Kind regards,

J.

[Marcin Erdmann]

Hi Jakub,

Geb has been around since 2010 and is not going away as far as I'm concerned. 

If you look at commit history on github, it has a healthy stream of commits over the years: https://github.com/geb/geb/graphs/contributors. 

I personally intend to maintain the project in the future. You can be assured that as long as I'm doing web development for a living it will be maintained because it's my tool of choice when it comes to automated browser testing. I am currently working on updating it to build with to WebDriver 3.x line (it already works with 3.x because the 2.x and 3.x APIs are compatible). It will involve some breaking changes so you should expect a 2.0 release of Geb in the near future.

I'm happy to start gathering names of companies who are using Geb to then put them on the website. Do you believe that it's worth starting a campaign to do so, Jakub? We can start a thread on the mailing list and announce the initiative via Geb's twitter account.

With regards to popularity, I believe it's the tool of choice for automated browser testing of most developers using Groovy on a daily basis. The site at gebish.org has been receiving ~13k sessions a month for the last 3.5 years according to Google Analytics. I wanted to pull download statistics for geb-core artifact from maven central but the statistics section of oss.sonatype.org seems to be broken at the moment. I will try again later and post here.

I do not plan to record any videos about Geb as I believe the documentation is comprehensive enough. There is of course a chance that I happen to give a talk about Geb in the future and it will be recorded and posted online.

I hope this helps you to make a decision whether to use Geb.

Cheers,

Marcin

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[Jakub]

Hi Marcin,

thank you for your reply. To me, the numbers are convincing, and so far I can say Geb has always worked like a charm and fulfilled my expectations.

As for learning materials, I can confirm from the user's perspective the manual is well readable and comprehensive which makes learning Geb very smooth. I also enjoyed your recorded talk about Geb Best Practices (at Greach conf).

Thanks for that. Looking forward to Geb 2.0.

Kind regards,

J.

[Marcin Erdmann]

As promised, here are the download statistics for geb-core artifact from maven central: http://oi63.tinypic.com/2qxxl6g.jpg

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