arquillian-extension-drone

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The Arquillian Drone 2 extension for Arquillian provides a simple way to include functional tests for an application with a web-based user interface.

Arquillian Drone 2 brings the power of WebDriver into the Arquillian framework. WebDriver serves as a language to communicate with the browser, by filling the forms, navigating the pages and validating their content.

Compared with its predecessor Arquillian Drone 1, it offers http://github.com/arquillian/arquillian-extension-drone/wiki/SPI-changes-in-Drone-2[new features and tools] as part of the SPI as well as http://github.com/arquillian/arquillian-extension-drone/wiki/API-changes-in-Drone-2[multiple life cycle scopes of @Drone points] as part of the API.

== Why should I use Arquillian Drone instead of plain WebDriver? There are many reasons why you want to do that, the most important being:

• Life cycle management of the browser
• Interaction with deployments and containers provided by Arquillian
• Simple usage of multiple browsers in a single test
• Configuration kept on a single place, outside of the Java code
• Fully compatible with the IDE
• Integration with mobile based browsers testing (https://github.com/arquillian/arquillian-droidium[Arquillian Droidium])
• Integration of JavaScript test suite execution (https://github.com/arquillian/arquillian-extension-qunit[Arquillian QUnit])
• Compatible with WebDriver (Selenium 2) and Selenium Grids

If you are still not convinced that Arquillian Drone matches your needs, you might have a look at https://github.com/arquillian/arquillian-graphene[Arquillian Graphene 2], which is a wrapper on top of WebDriver, goes one step further and provides you a convenient way how to write tests for rich AJAX UIs with an ease, injections for Page Objects and Page Fragments and much more.