Scripting overview

• Proprietary scripting language test scripts. We will call them ordinary or regular scripts in the following topics. The language is simple, text-based and close to spoken English and thus easy to understand. You have already seen a trivial test script of this format in the "Hello world!" example topic. A complete scripting language specification is available in the T-Plan Robot Enterprise documentation. Such test scripts are intended to be saved as plain text files with the .tpr extension (recommended). As test scripts are interpreted by the T-Plan Robot scripting engine, you have to start the tool and pass the script through the CLI or open it in the GUI in order to execute it.
  
• Java test scripts. There is a Java Test Script API allowing to write and execute test scripts in the Java language. This is very convenient for integration with data sources and additional technologies, for example for loading of test data from database or a file. As T-Plan Robot is internally able to compile Java source code and execute it on the fly, you may use Java test scripts the same way as the proprietary ones and manage them both through the CLI and GUI (as long as they have have the .java file extension). Java test scripts may also act as standalone programs (having their own main() method) and they may be instantiated and executed from third party applications.
• Hybrid test scripts (Enterprise version 2.1/2.2 and higher) are ordinary scripts which call Java code either by running of Java test classes or calling Java code directly through embedded Java code blocks. These two mechanisms will be discussed in the Interoperability of scripts and Java code later on.
  

import com.tplan.robot.scripting.DefaultJavaTestScript;
import com.tplan.robot.scripting.JavaTestScript;

import java.io.IOException;

public class Hello extends DefaultJavaTestScript implements JavaTestScript {
  public void test() {
    try {
      type("Hello world!");
    } catch (IOException ex) {
      ex.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}