Tutorials
Through this tutorial, we'll use a simple "Bank Account" application as system under test.
Before you start programming, please read the "How to Program" document, which describes how program code is handled in expecco. Unless you are familiar with the dynamics of a Smalltalk development environment, some of it may be unknown to you, and you will have more fun and be more productive, if you know the power of the tools. For the best development experience, take a look at the debugger, workspace (notepad) and data inspectors.
The rest of this document describes the syntax and semantics of the elementary action languages; for tool usage, please read the HowTo document.
One of the most frequently asked questions is "How can I generate testdata". Due to expecco's flexibility, there are multiple solutions to solving this task. Depending on the kind and amount of data to be generated, one of several patterns applies. The following gives you a rough overview on that theme.
Parameter values (like hostnames, port numbers, user names, DB names etc.) should usually not be used literally as freeze value or hard coded into an elementary block's code, because this may make the suite harder to maintain in that you'd have to search for such values whenever a change is required (using the string search facility in the left tree view).
This document lists the most common error situations and provides advice on how to fix it. It is incomplete and does not cover all possible errors.
