I am excited to announce a release of new Galen version 2.4.0! This release has a new awesome feature: spec generator. With it you are now able to generate a complete spec without much effort. And with another new feature, which is called “mutate”, you can test your generated specs whether they have proper test coverage. Here is the full list of features:

• Spec generator
• Mutation testing
• Embedded galen-extras lib
• Validations highlight in HTML report
• Failure map in HTML report
• Section filtering
• Google Vision integration for text recognition

I am pleased to announce that version 2.3.0 is now released. With this version we also decided to switch to Java 1.8. That means that you will need to upgrade your Java installation as well. The version 2.3.0 has the following major features:

• Ignoring regions in image spec
• Wildcard in image specs
• replace-colors filter in image spec
• Gradient color support in color-scheme spec
• Greater or equals and less or equals operators support

I am very excited to announce that the version 2.2 was just released with lots of new features and improvements in Galen Specs language. The complete list of changes is here. The major features added to version 2.2 are:

• Object Groups
• Code blocks in custom rules
• Mask filter and alpha channel in image spec
• Arguments for component spec

Greetings! The version 2.1 is live with the following major features:

• Spec 'count' for validating the amount of specific objects on page
• Heatmap for layout reports in html report
• Custom information table in html report

We are glad to announce that the version 2.0 with new improved Galen Specs language was released. Please note that this is a major release and it is not backwards compatible. If you already have tests implemented with previous version of Galen Framework you can use this quick reference where you can find hints on how to update your specs.

The major changes in this release are the following:

• Galen Specs v2
• Offset analyzer in image spec
• Elements list in GalenPages
• Passing JavaScript variables to specs

The version 1.6.0 was just released with the following major features:

• Custom rules in Galen Specs language
• Test groups
• Notes in specs
• New specs: 'left of' and 'right of'

You can see complete list of features on GitHub milestone 1.6

The version 1.5 was just released with the following major features:

• Support for PhantomJS browser
• Test retry event handler
• Frame support

The complete list of implemented features is on GitHub

There were a lot of new features introduced in version 1.4.1 as well as bugfixes. The major features are css property verification and custom JavaScript functions in specs

Since new v1.3.0 update in Galen Framework there are two new major functionalities: image comparison and page dump. The page dump creates an html report with page screenshot and fetches all page objects with detailed information. Also it stores each image of page object separately in png format. These images could be used for image comparison – a new technique in Galen Framework that allows to compare area of the selected object with predefined image sample. As a result you can get a report with detailed description and an image represeting the difference:

A new version 1.2.0 was released with the following features:

• Test filters in JavaScript tests
• Warning level in specs
• Java API