User Guide

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Assertions

Introduction RCPTT supports two recording modes: the Recording mode and the Assertion mode. You can select any of them by clicking on the corresponding button of the the Control Panel toolbar. You can also use hotkeys to switch between them, which is useful for some cases when a mouse click affects the current state of any AUT elements. The hotkey hint is shown in the bottom of the Control Panel window.

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Contexts

Contexts are one of the most powerful RCPTT features. A context is a relevant part of the application state, which is expected to be recreated by the test case. It could be anything, starting from There should be an FTP service available at IP address 192.168.0.10, or as it can be seen from the Eclipse tester perspective: There should be these particular files in the Eclipse Workspace, Java Perspective should be opened, MyJavaClass.

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Control Panel

Control panel is automatically opened when recording starts and provides a quick access to main test case properties. When recording is in progress, its Script tab immediately updates with recorded actions. There are two ways to start recording and open Control Panel: Use Record button in Test Case Editor. Use Record a Snippet button on RCPTT main toolbar. This mode is convenient for quick experiments or recording short snippets which can be pasted to other test cases later.

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Debugging Test Cases

Debugging works

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Eclipse Command Language

ECL stands for Eclipse Command Language, and it was developed and initially introduced by Xored at EclipseCon ‘08 in California. ECL has its own story. It goes back to the early history of Eclipse Platform which had always experienced a lack of Scripting and Automation solutions. This problem is not related to a particular programming (scripting) language but goes way further including an object model to script against it, data and code interoperability, and many more.

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Getting Started

To get an impression what it looks like to work with RCPTT, you’ll need the following: RCP Testing Tool IDE (download it here). Eclipse-based application to test. This guide assumes that you are using Eclipse Classic standard package, which can be downloaded from Eclipse downloads. Launch RCPTT IDE Just like usual Eclipse packages, RCPTT IDE does not require installation and can be just unpacked anywhere. So, at first download and unpack RCPTT IDE and your application-under-test somewhere on disk and launch RCPTT IDE.

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Integration

TestRail Integration Zephyr Integration

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Maven plugin

RCPTT Maven plugin (requires Maven 3.1+) is a convenient way of automating RCPTT test execution during Maven build. It automatically downloads RCPTT Runner and launches it with command line arguments. Quick start Download basic pom.xml, place it in a root of RCPTT project and modify path to application under test. Execute mvn clean package from project’s dir Configuration Basic plugin configuration Below is a basic POM template which can be used as starting point of automating RCPTT tests with RCPTT Maven plugin.

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Procedures and Variables

Introduction While automated recording in RCPTT works well, a lot of advanced users prefer to write ECL scripts manually, as it allows to create more flexible and maintainable test cases. So we have significantly improved the expressive power of ECL by introducing user-defined variables (via let blocks) and user-defined procedures (via proc commands). Before going into details, here’s a simple example - suppose we are testing Java editor and would like to hover a ruler on a currently selected line.

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RCPTT RAP

RAP support is deprecated See Remove RAP support #56