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Table of Contents

 

1. Install

The update site for GreenPepper's Eclipse development tools plugin is located at: http://www.greenpeppersoftware.com/greenpepper-eclipse.

Warning
titleSupported Eclipse versions:

The plugin has been tested from version 4.3 to 4.4

Step 1

In Eclipse, choose Help/Software Updates/Find and Install.

Step 2

Select Add... button to add a new remote site.

Step 3

To update the plugin enter following link: http://www.novatec-gmbh.de/updatesite/aqe

Step 4

In the tree of available updates select GreenPepper Development Tools and click Next >.

Step 5

Click Next > button in the Install Details window.

Step 6

You have to accept the terms of the license agreement to be able to proceed with the installation. You are now ready for the installation, click Finish.

Step 8

Once the download manager has started downloading, you see the Security Warning popup. The authenticity of software can not be established. You have to click Ok to continue with the installation.

 

Step 9

After the installation you must restart the Eclipse workbench, for the plugin to be available within the application.

Checking the installation

You should now see the GreenPepper menu on the toolbar.

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Select Installation Details menu from Help to check the correct installation of the plugin.

Updating

You can see the current installed version of the plugin and a link for checking for updates.

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Alternative: Select the first option in step 2.

2. Configure

Following steps are needed to configure the GreenPepper Eclipse plugin.
Before you begin, you must verify:

I. Workspace configuration

First, you have to configure where the plugin can find the GreenPepper Server.  This is done in Window >> Preferences.

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Enter the XML-RPC handler. (For now only greenpepper1 is available.)  You can test the connection by clicking on the Test Connection button.

II. Project configuration

Enable GreenPepper on a project by selecting GreenPepper/Project GreenPepperised.
You should see a check mark beside the menu option afterwards.

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  You are now ready to execute specification documents on your development code.

3. Use

Running specifications

A GreenPepper project, inside Eclipse, is a JavaProject.
When you greenpepperised a Java project, you gain access to Run
To validate that your project developement code respect the example in the specifications, you create a new Run Configuration.

I. Run Configuration

The Debug configuration works the same way.  Then create a new GreenPepper Specification

II. Inputs

  1. Project
    Your eclipse project to launch the specification on.
  2. Repository UID
    The remote Repository UID (None if local)
  3. Document Repository base URL
    The Repository URL (Or directory path if local)
  4. Document Repository Class
    • com.greenpepper.repository.FileSystemRepository for files
    • com.greenpepper.runner.repository.AtlassianRepository for Jira/Confluence
    • com.greenpepper.runner.repository.VFSRepository for zip ...
  5. Username
    If Authentication is need for the Repository access
  6. Password
    If Authentication is need for the Repository access
  7. Specification
    The Specification name (Document name)
  8. Current Version
    If versioning is handled, aim for the latest version of the document.

III. Execute Document

Open the Repository View and click right to execute a certain document to run the tests.

IV. Results

  Running the specification will give you a result like this one


  Notice that the html result file was added to your project files.

V. Text Result

  If the window displayed shows html in a text format, check your Open With setting for the html file

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  You need the Browser support plugin to be able to see the html page inside an Eclipse Editor.

Repository view

You can view all the specifications for your project using the repository view.

Show the repository view window

There is two ways to access the repository view.
1) From the GreenPepper menu

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2) From the eclipse standard view selection.
    First choose Show View-Other
    Then choose GreenPepper RepositoryView

The Repository View

  The Repository view is a JUnit like view.
  You will be able to launch executions, view documents and results and work on both Implemented and Working copies of the documents.
  Careful ! the Green bar might be addictive after a while ...

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titleBy default Eclipse will work on the Implemented copy of the document.

 

Keyboard shortcuts

4. FAQ

I cannot see the GreenPepper property page for my project.

Make sure your project has been GreenPepperized using the option menu. Only projects with a GreenPepper nature have the GreenPepper property pages.
See Configure GreenPepper Eclipse plugin for more information.

I cannot see my project in the projects combo when creating a Run Configuration.

Make sure your project has been GreenPepperized using the option menu. Only projects with a GreenPepper nature can have a GreenPepper run configuration. See Configure GreenPepper Eclipse plugin for more information.

Some of the pages I retrieved from Confluence have underlined macro errors.

To prevent deadlocks, we ask Confluence not to render the GreenPepper macros for third party applications witch result in an underlined error on the rendered page.

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