Geb

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Introduction

Geb (pronounced ‘jeb’) is a browser automation solution that, in the project’s words, brings together the power of WebDriver, the elegance of jQuery content selection, the robustness of page object modelling and the expressiveness of Groovy.

Geb’s repository now lives at apache/groovy-geb and its documentation at groovy.apache.org/geb, with questions on the geb-users@groovy.apache.org mailing list and GitHub Discussions. It integrates with Spock, JUnit and TestNG, and is popular in Grails applications.

Pages are declared as classes with a url, an at checker and a content block of named elements, and the $() navigator selects elements with CSS-like syntax.

In the quality loop it covers end-to-end web testing for Groovy and JVM teams.

The source code is at apache/groovy-geb on GitHub under the Apache-2.0 licence, with about 1,200 stars; the most recent commit was on 10 November 2026.

Features

1. Navigator API: jQuery-like $() selection.
2. Page objects: content, at checks and modules.
3. WebDriver based: Any WebDriver browser or grid.
4. Spock integration: Readable specifications.
5. Groovy DSL: Concise, dynamic test code.

Pros

1. Expressive: Very short page definitions.
2. Free to use: Open source under the Apache-2.0 licence, so the core tool costs nothing to use.
3. Actively maintained: The repository had commits as recent as 10 November 2026.

Cons

1. Groovy required: Less appealing for Java- or Kotlin-only teams.
2. Niche community: Smaller than mainstream frameworks.

Usage and Links (Example)

class LoginSpec extends GebSpec {
  def "user signs in"() {
    when: go "/login"; $("#email").value("user@example.com"); $("button", type: "submit").click()
    then: $("h1").text() == "Welcome"
  }
}

Resources:

• Geb website
• GitHub repository

Pricing

Geb is free and open source under the Apache-2.0 licence.

Recommended for?

1. Groovy, Grails and Spock teams.
2. Not a fit for non-JVM projects.

Conclusion

Geb remains an elegant WebDriver library for Groovy and is actively developed within the Apache Groovy project.

On CheckOps, Geb is filed under the End-to-end & functional stage. Related tools listed here include Selenide, Selenium, Spock Framework, Serenity BDD, Atata and Capybara. Before choosing, compare them on licence, supported languages and platforms, hosting model, and how well each fits your existing CI pipeline. Facts on this page were checked against the official website, documentation and repository on 11 November 2026; statements the vendor makes about its own product are marked as vendor claims.