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General
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
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
- Inventory Element
- Skill Element
- Resource Element
- Attachment Element
- ReportTemplate Element
Editors
- Documentation Editor
- History Editor
- Testsuite 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
- Datatype Editor
- Inventory Editor
- Report Parameter Editor
- Resource Editor
- Skill Editor
- Category/Container Editor
- Documentation Editor
- Attachment Editor
- GUI Editor: GUICode Editor
Diagram-Elements
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)
- 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/en -- allows for Groovy code to be executed on the SUT
- VisualBasic Script Plugin -- allows VisualBasic code to be executed either locally or on the SUT
- Java Browser -- allows for Java classes to be browsed in the SUT
- Java Debugger -- allows to debug Groovy blocks and other code executed by 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
API
- Plugin API - information for Plugin developers
Customization
Concepts, Hints, Tips and Tricks
Tutorials
expecco ALM
Overview
expecco ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)
Glossary
Konzepte
- Concepts/en - concepts; testsuite, testdefinition, testschedule, testrun, testequipment
- Configuration & Setup/en - setting up users, roles and projects
Release Notes
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)
Licenseservice
General
- Overview
- Release Notes
- Installation - initial installation, license files, updates
- Configuration & Setup - setting up ports and users
- Glossary