Gauge is out of beta
We’re happy to announce the launch of Gauge 1.0, and that Gauge is officially out of beta.
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Our Goal
Teams rely on tests to quickly detect and fix problems in every stage of their build pipeline. We have observed (and felt it ourselves!) that it is tough to maintain or debug tests, especially acceptance tests, even if you follow the test pyramid.
That’s where Gauge, a free and open source test automation framework by ThoughtWorks, comes in.
Why we built Gauge
Over time, teams over-engineer test suites with design opinions making it harder and harder to write new tests or maintain existing ones. We believe it’s important to minimize or eliminate this bloated design process. Gauge removes this overhead by making test automation a natural part of the software development cycle and by removing hurdles that come in the way of writing and maintaining acceptance tests.
Gauge is
- An easy to setup single binary with no dependencies that’s available for all major languages and platforms.
- Easy to learn with markdown syntax and a simple implementation.
- Easy to maintain by focusing on creating readable and reusable tests without design overhead and with less code.
- Easy to extend with its modular design and plugins.
If you’d like to learn more about why we built Gauge and how Gauge can help you create a low maintenance test suite we’ve written at length about our motivations behind building Gauge on our blog.
Acknowledgement
We didn’t get here alone. We are grateful to a whole bunch of wonderful people that includes our contributors and a growing community of early adopters.
Roadmap
We are excited to move out of beta. We have some great features lined up for version 1.1 - the main one being support for .NET core on VS Code. Also in the pipeline are some of our community requested features like screenshots during test execution and table driven execution of scenarios. There’s a lot of exciting stuff in the pipeline and you can see it all on our roadmap.

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