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Release Notes

• Release Notes expecco

General, Overview, Concepts

• Overview
• Concepts - concepts; testplan, testcase, activities, verdicts
• Glossary
• FAQ

Installation, Configuration & Setup

• Installation - initial installation, license files, patches
• Configuration & Setup - jre/jdk setup, pathes
• Personal Settings - editor settings

Command Line and Remote Control Services

• Command Line Options and RPC Services
  • Command Line
  • Remote Control via SOAP
  • Remote Control via REST
  • Scripting by File or via Telnet

Report Generation

• Report Generation

expecco UI

• General Info on the Expecco UI
• Menu
• Toolbar
• Navigation Tree
• Settings
• Testsuite Browser
• Expecco Remote Control APP

Tree-Elements

• Tree Elements
• Folder Element
• Datatype Element
• Testplan Element
• Block Element
  • Elementary Block Element
  • Compound Block Element
  • KeywordBlock Element
  • TestDataGeneratorBlock Element
  • Virtual Block Element
  • Unimplemented Block Element
  • GUIBlock Element
• Inventory Element
• Skill Element
• Resource Element
• Attachment Element
• ReportTemplate Element

Editors

• Documentation Editor
• History Editor
• Testsuite Editor
  • Testsuite Editor: Environment Editor
  • Testsuite Editor: Execution Settings Editor
  • Testsuite Editor: Report Parameter Editor
  • Testsuite Editor: Metadata Editor
  • Testsuite Editor: Statistic Data Editor
  • Testsuite History Editor
• Block Editor
  • Scheme Editor
  • Elementary Block: Code Editor
  • Block Functionality Test Editor
  • Block Functionality Runner
  • Block Skill Editor
  • Compound Block: Compound Diagram Editor
  • Compound Block: Environment Editor
  • Keyword Block: Keyword Action List Editor
  • TestData Generator Block: TestData Editor
  • Table Driven Block: Table Editor
• Testplan Editor
  • Testplan Editor: Testplan Environment Editor
  • Testplan Editor: Testplan List Editor
  • Testplan Editor: Testplan Report Parameter Editor
• Datatype Editor
• Inventory Editor
• Report Parameter Editor
• Resource Editor
• Skill Editor
• Category/Container Editor
• Documentation Editor
• Attachment Editor
  • File Attachment Editor
  • URL Attachment Editor
  • Report Template Editor
• GUI Editor: GUICode Editor

Diagram-Elements

• Pin
  • Input Pin
    • Enable (Trigger-) Input Pin
    • Cancel Input Pin
    • Iterate Input Pin
    • Timelimit Input Pin
    • Performer Input Pin
  • Output Pin
    • Exception Output Pin
    • Enable (Trigger-)Output Pin
    • Execution Time Output Pin
• Step
  • Attachment Step
• Connection
• Pin Description
• Annotation
• Probe

Tools

Debugger

• Debugger: the internal Debugger

Additional tools in the "Extras"-Menu

• Notepad: A postIt-like text editor and code evaluation window

• File Browser: A tool to search for and manipulate files and their contents

• Class Browser: Expert tool to investigate and manipulate class code

• Process Monitor: A tool to show active execution processes (threads within expecco)

• Transcript: A message and trace window

• Test Suite Difference Browser: To find differences between two test suites

Additional functions in the "Extras" Menu

• "Explorer" / "Explorer In...": opens a Windows Explorer window on one of the common directories (Windows platform only)
• "Finder" / "Finder In...": opens a Finder window on one of the common directories (Mac OSX platform only)
• Screenshot: generates a file containing a screenshot image (in bmp, png or tiff format)
• Model Translation Editor: To define language-translations for model elements
• Import Shell or Batch Scripts: To generate blocks for existing test/automation scripts

Low level debug functions found in the "Extras"-"Debugging" Menu

• Show all External Connections: To find open handles
• Shut Down Bridge Connections: To tear down leftover JavaBridge connections
• Close all Socket Connections: To tear down leftover Socket (interprocess communication) connections
• Close all Serial Connections: To tear down leftover Serial connections

• Show Memory Usage by Object Type: Detailed information about memory usage
• Memory Cleanup: Force memory cleanup to release unused resources

Elementary Block API

• Expecco API - Information for Elementary Block Developers

Standard Library Reference

The following libraries are included in the base package. No additional exptension or plugin is required.

• Standard Library -- A common, domain independent library
• Expecco Reflection Library -- A library to automate expecco itself

Interfacing to the System Under Test

• COM/OLE -- How to invoke COM interfaces
• Corba -- How to invoke Corba interfaces
• FTP -- FTP interface
• HTTP -- HTTP interface
• HTTPS -- HTTP (SSL) interface
• SOAP -- SOAP interface
• XMLRPC -- XML-RPC interface
• REST -- REST interface
• Telnet -- Telnet interface
• Sockets -- Generic Low Level Socket interfaces
• Pipes -- Pipes
• Shared Memory - Shared Memory
• DLL Calls

Plugins and Extensions

UI Testing

Web Browser UI Testing

• Selenium Web Test Plugin -- Web Page Tests and Interaction (part of the base package)
• SeleniumLibrary Reference -- Library reference

GUI Testing

• GUI Browser: Common Expecco Extension for GUI Tests
  This extension provides a base for the other UI technology interfaces, and is a prerequisite (included in) the Java GUI, Mobile GUI, Qt and Windows Automation GUI plugins.

• Java Swing/SWT UI Testing
  These plugins provide interfaces to Java GUIs based on Swing and/or SWT.

• Mobile UI Testing for Android and iOS
  This plugin interfaces to Android and iOS mobile devices via an Appium access layer.

• UI Testing von Qt Anwendungen
  This plugin interfaces to Applications using the Qt UI framework.

• Windows Automation GUI Access Interfacing Library
  This plugin interfaces to Windows applications via the UI Automation layer.

• AutoIt GUI Interface Library
  This plugin interfaces to Windows applications via AutoIt. It is very low level, in that only a very limited set of attributes is accessable; however, it works with any window written in any UI framework and is sometimes useful, if no high level attributes (knowledge) about the underlying UI technology is available.

Code Execution

• Groovy Code Execution Plugin -- allows for Groovy code to be executed locally or inside the SUT

• VisualBasic Script Plugin -- allows VisualBasic code to be executed either locally or on the SUT

• C# Code Execution -- executes C# code either locally or inside the SUT (.NET famework)

• Python Code Execution -- executes IronPython code locally or inside the SUT (.NET framework)

• Java Browser -- allows for Java classes to be browsed in the SUT

• Java Debugger -- to debug Groovy block and other code executed by the Java Bridge in (remote) JVM

• SmallSense -- together with Java Browser/en provides basic code completion support for Groovy code.

Manual Test Support Plugins

• Manual Test Plugin -- guides users through manual tests
• Manual Test Import Plugin -- imports test specifications written in Word or Excel

Misc Plugins

• Gembird Power Control Plugin -- control a power plug (part of the base package)

QM Interface Plugins

• Polarion Plugin Reference - automate execution from & interact with Polarion
• expeccoALM Plugin Reference - automate execution from & interact with expeccoNET
• HP Quality Center Plugin Reference - automate execution from and interact with HP Quality Center
• Jira Plugin Reference - interact with Jira

Specification Import/Export

• WSDL Service Import Plugin -- import service actions from a WSDL service description
• XMI Diagram Import Plugin -- import XMI activity diagrams from Enterprise Architect

Data/Message/Document Formats

• ASN1 Support -- parse ASN1 specifications; read/write/verify/modify ASN1 encoded messages
• GDMO Support -- read/write/verify/modify GDMO objects
• DTD, XSD Support -- read type specifications
• SWIFT Plugin -- read/write/verify/modify SWIFT messages
• EDI / Edifact Plugin -- read/write/verify/modify EDI messages; parse message specifications in various formats;
• EDI / Idoc Plugin -- to be documented
• EDI / X12 Plugin -- to be documented
• PDF Support -- read PDF file structure; generate PDF documents
• ODF Support -- read ODF file structure
• JSON Support -- encode/decode JSON messages
• PEG Parser -- to parse arbitrary messages/texts

Communications/Protocols

• FTP Support -- ftp client / ftp server / sftp client
• HTTP Support -- http client / http server
• Telnet Protocol -- client / server
• SSL Protocol
• IMAP & POP3 Support
• NFS Support -- server
• SunRPC Support -- client & server
• Thrift Support
• MQueue Plugin -- websphere/mainframe interface
• Serial Port Communication
• Parallel Port Communication
• USB Port Communication
• ChipCard/SmartCard Package - GSM, EC, ISO7816 cards and other standards via GemPlus, Oros and other interfaces
• GPIB Interface - measurement device interface
• CanBUS Interface - low level interface via serial or USB interface
• LDAP Interface
• OLE Interface

Databases

• ODBC Interface (part of the base package)
• SQLite Interface (part of the base package)
• Oracle Native Interface

NoSQL

• Cassandra Interface
• CouchDB Interface
• MongoDB Interface
• SandstoneDB Interface
• Goods-DB Interface

API

• Plugin API - information for Plugin developers

Customization

• User Defined Menu Items

 

Concepts, Hints, Tips and Tricks

• expecco API
• Executor
• Executor - Activity

• Generating Test Data
• Parametrizing Tests
• Organizing Libraries
• Reimporting a Library
• Uses of Tags

Tutorials

• Testing Java Applications using Groovy Blocks

expecco ALM

Overview

expecco ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)

Konzepte

• Architecture/en - overview and architecture
• Concepts/en - concepts; testsuite, testdefinition, testschedule, testrun, testequipment
• Configuration & Setup/en - setting up users, roles and projects

Release Notes

• 1.9.5
• 2.0.0

Settings (System)

• Login using LDAP

Webinterface (HTTP)

• Personal Settings - editor settings
• Master Menu
• Requirements UI
• Defects UI
• Actions UI
• Tests UI
• Projects UI
• Organization UI
• Settings UI

Mobile Monitoring App (Android)

• expecco ALM App

Licenseservice

General

• Overview
• Release Notes
• Installation - initial installation, license files, updates
• Configuration & Setup - setting up ports and users
• Glossary

User Interface

• License Menu

Smalltalk

Packages

• SOAP
• SOAP WSDL

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