Citrus Integration Testing

Welcome to Citrus

Citrus is a test framework written in Java that is able to create fully automated end-to-end use case tests for enterprise SOA applications. Citrus simulates surrounding interface partners supporting a huge set of different transports and protocols like Http, JMS, TCP/IP, FTP, SOAP, XML and JSON.

Visit our official website at 'https://citrusframework.org' for more information and a detailed documentation.

Preconditions

You need following software on your machine in order to use the Citrus framework:

• Java 8 or higher Installed JDK plus JAVA_HOME environment variable set up and pointing to your Java installation directory

• Java IDE (optional) A Java IDE will help you to manage your Citrus project (e.g. creating and executing test cases). You can use the Java IDE that you like best like Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA.

• Maven 3.0.x or higher (optional) Citrus projects will fit best with Maven (https://maven.apache.org). However it is not required to use Maven. You can also run tests using ANT (https://ant.apache.org/) for instance.

Installation

• Download the latest Citrus release archive

• Extract the archive into an appropriate location on your local storage

• Use the ANT tutorial in our tutorials section to find out how to run tests using ANT.

• Read the Maven tutorial to find out how to integrate the Citrus tests into the Maven build lifecycle

Release Notes

Each release comes with a complete reference documentation. At the beginning of the reference you will find a section about the changes and notes for this release. For detailed description of changed packages and classes do also consult the provided javadoc.

Resources

• Citrus's source repository is hosted on github.com. You can clone the repository with git://github.com/citrusframework/citrus.git as URL

• Find our blog and more interesting articles around Citrus on https://labs.consol.de and checkout the various post categories for selecting a specific topic.

• https://citrusframework.org offers tutorials and more information about Citrus framework.

Samples

Our sample section is still growing. Nevertheless you can find a sample project called 'FlightBookingService' in our distribution. To build and run the sample applications go to the 'samples' directory and run 'build.xml' script with ANT (ant -p).

Licensing

Copyright 2006-2018 ConSol Software GmbH.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Consulting

Just in case you need professional support for Citrus have a look at 'https://citrusframework.org/docs/consulting/'. Contact [email protected] directly for any request or questions (or use the contact form at 'https://www.consol.com/contact/')

Bugs

Please report any bugs and/or feature requests directly to https://github.com/citrusframework/citrus/issues

Information

For more information on Citrus see citrusframework.org, including a complete reference manual.