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 17+ Installed JDK plus JAVA_HOME environment variable set up and pointing to your Java installation directory. Used to compile and build the Citrus code.
Maven 3.9.8+ Citrus projects will fit best with Maven. However, it is not required to use Maven. You can also run tests using Gradle for instance.
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.

Installation

Download the latest Citrus release archive
Extract the archive into an appropriate location on your local storage
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://citrusframework.org/news 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. You can find several sample projects in the separate repository https://github.com/citrusframework/citrus-samples.

Licensing

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

http://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/contact.html. Contact citrus-dev@googlegroups.com directly for any request or questions

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.

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