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Welcome to Gauge

Gauge is a light weight cross-platform test automation tool. It provides the ability to author test cases in the business language.

Gauge champions the idea of living/executable documentation.

Some of its key features include:

• A rich markup based on markdown
• Support for writing test code in any programming language. See Test Code for currently supported languages.
• A modular architecture with plugin support.
• Consistency across language implementations.

Why Gauge?

Certain features of Gauge makes it stand unique amongst others.

• Consistent Cross Platform/Language Support
• Business Language Tests : Supports the concept of executable documentation
• Open Source, so it could be shared freely and improved by others as well
• Simple, Flexible and Rich Syntax
• Helps you create Maintainable and Understandable test suites
• Extensible through Plugins and Hackable
• Supports External Data Sources
• IDE Support

Get started quickly

• Get gauge installers from the download page.
• Create a gauge project
• Execute Specifications

Find out more

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Questions or need help?

Check out the [Talk to us] (http://github.com/getgauge/gauge/wiki/Talk-to-us) page on our wiki.

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License

Gauge is released under GNU Public License version 3.0

Contributing

Please read the guide on contributing to Gauge.

Copyright

Copyright 2015 ThoughtWorks, Inc.