FAQ on Expecco General/en

Settings & Preferences

My changed settings have vanished after restart

You have to click on the "Save" button in the settings dialog. Otherwise, the settings will only be valid for the current session.

Some characters in names are not shown (or shown as empty boxes)

This happens if characters are not present in the font. These are typically shown as a an empty box, or sometimes as a crossed-out box. Often, this happens on Unix systems with far-east characters.

• goto "Extras" - "Settings" - "Look & Feel" - "Font"
• Click on "Change" for the "List" font (and maybe others)
• select a font which shows the characters in the preview (eg., on a MAC, choose a font with "Unicode" in its name)
• Save the settings

Testexecution

Can I have a testplan to be repeated automatically?

Yes, select the testplan and scroll down the editor page. At the bottom, you'll find various settings to repeat the test cases of the plan.

Can I have an individual test case to be repeated?

Not via a simple check toggle. You should create a new compound action, place the original test case into its network (as a step), and create a loop by connecting its output-trigger to its input trigger. Do not forget a stop-condition test (to pass the trigger signal only, if some condition is met), to prevent it from endless looping (unless you want it to loop until an error happens).

License Issues

Update/change the license file

You will get an eMail containing a license file;

• please close expecco,
• find and remove (or rename) the file named .expeccoLicense in your home directory (eg. C:\Users\username)
• reopen expecco. It will ask for a license file
• either drag & drop the new license file or select it in the file dialog

Updates & releases

What Happens when a New expecco-Release is Installed

We put a lot effort into making new releases backward compatible. In general, there is no need to modify existing test suites or to reimport libraries. All suites are "self-contained", meaning that any previously imported library is contained and unaffected by the release change (unless you reimport and save the suite).

In a few cases, incompatibilities were introduced in the past by changed timing or by a bug fix, for which customers already added a workaround, which no longer matched the new release. However, the later can only happen after a reimport (eg. of the standard library).

If your suite fails to execute in a new release (without reimport), we consider that as a malfunction and exept will provide a fix (patch) as soon as possible. Please report such behavior via expeccoALM, for it to be fixed.

Please read the release notes before installing a new version, install the new release in a separate folder (i.e. without removing the older version), and test run your suite(s) before switching.

Be careful, if the new release has added features which were not present previously: if such features are used, and a suite is saved, the suite may report errors when loaded in the older version.  

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