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Review

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In this talk I give an introduction to a new Project at Eclipse (1): Xpect, a framework that allows to embed test expectations into comments inside your Xtext language. The approach is non-intrusive to your code, integrates with JUnit and has a smart editor for the Xpect-specific syntax.

Since Xpect separates DSL-Documents from Java-Test implementations, it becomes incredibly easy to add real-world code snippets to your test suite. You even can use your languages’s Xtext-Editor to edit your test cases.

In teams, this approach has proven very valuable to allow for an easy review of the language design and compliance of the language implementation.

I will also demo a new feature of Xpect: Now tests can be run live, as you type, as part of Xtext’s validation. Eclipse markers provide feedback regarding the text execution result. Feedback has never been faster.

1: As of writing this abstract, an project proposal has been submitted to the EMO.

Speaker(s):
Moritz Eysholdt (TypeFox)