Basic Guides

This section goes through all elements of Balder and describes them in detail. Before going through this section, we always recommend to start with the complete Getting Started and Tutorial Guide section before going deeper.

The different subsections of this chapter are created independently from each other. So feel free to jump to the subsection you want to learn more about.

If you want to get a deeper understanding how Balder is implemented internally or if you have some specific questions about some of these topics, please take a look at the Reference Guides.

Basic Guides

• Balder execution mechanism
  • Difference between setup and scenario
  • Collecting process
  • Matching process of setups and scenarios (SOLVING)
  • Devices with features
  • Using Fixtures
• Scenarios
  • Create a scenario
  • Add one or more devices
  • Add new device features
  • Use the features and write tests
  • Scenario inheritance
• Setups
  • Add devices
  • Add setup-device features
  • Setup inheritance
• Devices
  • Scenario-Device
  • Setup-Device
  • Connect Devices
• Features
  • Inner-Feature-Referencing
  • Autonomous-Features
  • Bind features
  • Feature inheritance
• VDevices and method-variations
  • vDevices
  • Using method variations
  • Bind vDevice for connection-trees
  • Use multi-vDevice feature multiple times
  • Class based for_vdevice
• Fixtures
  • A simple fixture
  • Execution-Level possibilities
  • Definition-Scope possibilities
  • Reference fixtures
• Connections
  • Global connection-trees
  • Sub-Connection-Trees
  • OR/AND connection relations
  • Using the base connection object
  • Defining your own connection
  • Global connection tree
  • What means CONTAINED-IN?
• Configure Balder
  • Console arguments
  • BalderSettings object
  • BalderPlugin object
• BalderHub - the share place of tests
  • Where can I search for?
  • How can I use them?
  • How create my own BalderHub project?