BitvUnit 0.13

• internal structure
  • new interface Testable as common basis for Rule and RuleSet that both can be verified against
  • simplifying ComplianceMatcher to make use of the new interface Testable
• external api
  • new class BitvUnit with all commonly used methods to interact with the library
• updated plugins
  • all plugins use the latest available version
• updates dependencies
  • org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-htmlunit-driver:2.44.0
  • org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-api:2.44.0
  • junit:junit:4.12
  • org.mockito:mockito:1.10.8
• rules
  • added new rule AvoidUnderlineTagRule

BitvUnit 0.12

• added AllRules class and allRules factory to ease testing against all configured rules
• remove project bitvunit-cli to ease development
• support fluent way to add rules to a BasicRuleSet with the new method withRule(Rule rule)
• updated dependencies
  • org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-api:2.42.2
  • org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-htmlunit-driver:2.42.2
• rules
  • removed rule DoctypeForPageRule due to incompatibility with webdriver

BitvUnit 0.11

• updated dependencies
  • net.sourceforge.htmlunit:htmlunit:2.15
  • org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.3.4
  • org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:2.3.2
  • org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-api:2.42.0
  • org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-htmlunit-driver:2.42.0

BitvUnit 0.10.0

• rules
  • added new rule DoctypeForPageRule
  • added new rule AvoidBasefontTagRule
  • added new rule AvoidCenterTagRule
  • added new rule AvoidFontTagRule
  • added new rule AvoidFrameTagRule
  • added new rule AvoidTeletypeTagRule
  • improve rule LabelForInputFieldRule to validate new HTML 5 input types
• infrastructure
  • continuous integration against Oracle JDK 8 and Oracle JDK 7
  • faster build not generating javadoc on every build but only for releases
  • building against Java 7 instead of Java 6 language level
  • use Java 7 features where appropriate
  • fixed release specific configuration for maven-release-plugin
• documentation
  • javadoc is fixed so that it can be generated with latest maven-javadoc-plugin
• updated dependencies
  • now using org.seleniumhq:selenium-api:2.41.0
  • now using org.seleniumhq:selenium-htmlunit-driver:2.41.0
  • now using net.sourceforge.htmlunit:htmlunit:2.14
  • now using org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.3.3

BitvUnit 0.9.0

• Hamcrest Matcher returns violations in case of errors
• documentation
  • improved readme for the starting page on GitHub
  • downsizing website for easier maintainability
• infrastructure
  • added continuous integration against Oracle JDK 7 and OpenJDK 6 and 7
  • added verification of source code with PMD
  • updated all plugin versions
• updated dependencies
  • now using org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-api:2.35.0
  • now using org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-htmlunit-driver:2.35.0
  • now using xmlunit:xmlunit:1.5

BitvUnit 0.8.0

• added new rules
  • AvoidAppletTagRule
  • AvoidBorderAttributeForImageRule
  • SelectFieldWithValidOptionRule
• improved robustness of library
  • fixing a bug that causes a NPE when rules raise a violation without an element
  • added tests for correct behaviour
• new infrastructure
  • now using travis ci instead of jenkins for continuous integration
• updated dependencies
  • updated commons-io from version 2.1 to 2.4
  • updated selenium from version 2.20.0 to 2.33.0
  • updated hamcrest-core from version 1.2.1 to 1.3
  • updated htmlunit from version 2.9 to 2.12
  • updated xmlunit from version 1.3 to 1.4
• improved templates with better implementation instructions

BitvUnit 0.7.0

• added support for Selenium WebDriver
• added priority concept to rules
  • rules have a default priority NORMAL
  • rules can be promoted to priority HIGH or demoted to priority LOW individually
• improved XML based configuration
  • the priority of every rule listed in a XML based ruleset can be configured
• improved reporting functionality
  • TextReportWriter and XmlReportWriter list the priority for every rule
• increased test coverage
  • testing validity of XSD schema document ruleset-schema.xsd
  • testing validity of XML document /rulesets/all-rules.xml
• improvements to documentation
  • added documentation to XSD schema document ruleset-schema.xsd
  • better apidocs provided by doclava doclet for JavaDoc
• improvements to bitvunit-demo project
  • show usage in combination with WebDriver
  • show usage in combination with HtmlUnit
  • show usage in combination with simple URLs
• updated dependencies
  • now using org.mockito:mockito-all:1.9.0

BitvUnit 0.6.0

• added new rules
  • AlternativeTextForImageButtonRule
  • AlternativeTextForInlineFrameRule
  • AlternativeTextForLinkedImageRule
  • AvoidAbstractRoleRule
  • HeadingContainsTextRule
  • TitleForPageRule
• renamed HeadersInCorrectOrderRule to HeadingsInCorrectOrderRule
• Groovy console script
  • added a goal to set everything up for the implementation of new rules
  • added a goal to generate rule documentation from javadoc
  • added a goal to generate and publish apidocs on the website
• improvements to documentation website
  • the website now comes in a much cleaner layout
  • all rules are listed and documented on the website
  • apidocs are now available from the usage page
• updated dependencies
  • now using commons-io:commons-io:2.1
  • now using junit:junit:4.10

BitvUnit 0.5.0

• added new rules
  • AnchorsWithoutTargetAttributeRule
  • FieldsetContainsLegendRule
• improved reporting functionality
  • added functionality to write report results to files and to console
  • renamed ConsoleReportWriter to TextReportWriter to reflect that it can also be used to write to files
  • added functionality to print out the library version in reports to AbstractReportWriter
  • added XmlReportWriter to write XML based reports to console and files
• fixed maven problems
  • due to wrong configuration for resource filtering all-rules.xml ruleset was not provided in the jar
  • dependency versions are now defined only in one place (in the bitvunit-project POM)
• added sample project bitvunit-demo to showcase the usage of the library
• improved JavaDoc
  • added package documentation to all packages
  • added documentation of ReportingContext
• updated dependencies
  • now using net.sourceforge.htmlunit:htmlunit:2.9
  • now using junit:junit:4.9

BitvUnit 0.4.0

• added new rules
  • AlternativeTextForObjectRule
  • AvoidServerSideImageMapRule
• added HtmlPageUtil to create HtmlPage objects from String, Reader, InputStream and URL instances
• updated Hamcrest functionality
  • replaced RuleMatcher and RuleSetMatcher by ComplianceMatcher
    • added capability to test java.io.InputStream representations of HTML pages
    • added capability to test java.io.Reader representations of HTML pages
    • added capability to test java.lang.String representations of HTML pages
    • added capability to test java.net.URL representations of HTML pages
• added reporting functionality
  • added ConsoleReportWriter as first implementation of ReportWriter to write to system console
• updated usage documentation
• added and improved JavaDoc
• increased test coverage for internal functionality