User Guide

RedDeer User Guide is under construction now!

Getting started

• RedDeer Installation
• Test execution of imported examples
• Write and run your first minimal functional test
• Write your own RedDeer API for your tests
• Everything you want to know about requirements
• Write minimal requirement extension
• Write complex requirement with own schema
• How to run Red Deer tests in a Jenkins Environment
• RedDeer Execution parameters

Simplified reference guide

JUnit

This provides runners and configuration support for your functional tests

• Suite
• Configurations
• Running tests
• JUnit test extensions

Fundamentals

This section provides basic understanding of basic building stones of low-level RedDeer

• Matchers
• Conditions
• Exceptions
• Waits and timeouts
• Platform specifics

Low-Level API (SWT Layer)

This API is usable for building your own RedDeer API for 3rd party plugins or for unsupported Eclipse UI parts

Supported widgets

• Button
• CLabel
• Combo
• CTabItem
• ExpandBar
• InternalBrowser
• Label
• Link
• List
• Menu
• ProgressBar
• Scale
• Shell
• Spinner
• StyledText
• TabItem
• Table
• Text
• ToolBar
• ToolItem
• Tree
• TreeItem

JFace Abstracts

This provides basic abstract for writing specific implementations of:

• Import/Export Wizards
• New Wizards

Hi-Level API (Eclipse Layer)

This is key API for building functional tests by using RedDeer

• Wizards
  • New File
  • New Java Class Wizard
  • New Java Project Wizard
  • Project Import
• Views
  • Package Eplorer
  • Project Explorer
  • Browser View
  • Console View
  • Problems View
  • Outline View
  • Error Log View
  • Servers View
• Preferences
  • Runtime Preferences
• Database Connection Profiles
• SecureStorage
• Custom Project
• Editors

Test Requirement extensions

• Basic-test-requirement-extensions (Clean workspace, Open perspective)
• Server Requirement extension
• Database Requirement extension

RedDeer UI Tooling

RedDeer provides UI tooling for more comfortable running and generating RedDeer tests and projects

• RedDeer Project Wizard
• RedDeer Runner
• RedDeer Spy View

Other topics

• Debugging RedDeer
• Howto build RedDeer
• Set plugin preference prior Eclipse start