Extensions

Enhancing Concordion with flexible features

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Concordion includes a flexible extension mechanism for adding functionality, for example implementing new commands, listening to events, or modifying the output documentation. It’s simple to write your own extension, or use one of the following:

Alternate Specification Types

Excel spreadsheet with Concordion commands as comments
Excel Star

write your specifications in Excel

README Tutorial

Runners

Parallel Run Star

runs specifications in parallel

README Demo

Documentation Enhancers

Example of output specification with storyboard
Storyboard Star

embeds a card sequence with screenshots or data

README Demo
Example of output specification with screenshot showing when hovering over failure
Screenshot Star

embeds screenshots on failure or on demand

README Demo
Example of output specification with logging info showing when hovering over tooltip
Logging Tooltip Star

adds logging information as tooltips

README Demo
Example of logging info
Logback Star

adds logging tooltips and a log file viewer, with a unique log per test

README Demo
Example of run totals showing on specification
Run Totals Star

shows number of child tests passing and failing

README
Example of timings showing on specification
Timing Star

shows time taken per example

README Demo
Example of input style showing on specification
Input Style Star

adds CSS styling for input elements

README Specification
Example of specification with content collapsed
Collapse Output Star

makes sections of the documentation collapsible

README Demo
Example of footer with timestamp formatted
Star Timestamp Formatter

shows duration in hour, min, sec rather than milliseconds

README
Example of exception message being translated
Star Exception Translator

modifies exception message text

README Demo
Example of the status info being displayed on an example
Star Status Info

Adds custom info to an example with a status

README Demo

Additional Commands

Embed Star

embeds HTML in the documentation

README
Execute only if Star

conditionally executes child commands

README

See also the Cubano framework which integrates Concordion with a number of Concordion extensions, Selenium WebDriver and other open-source projects to provide a ready-made framework for web and API testing.

Note: Additional contributions are welcome. Please get in touch on the concordion-dev list.

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