1. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 1 ixJED JDF toolset ixact GmbH Dr. Karsten Wendt www.ixact.de

2. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 2 Agenda About ixact ixJED: test, simulator and editor toolset praxis report from Agfa: scripting in ixJED for automated testing

3. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 3 ixact Founded 1998 Located in Obertshausen 15 km from Frankfurt Consulting & SW Development for the printing industry Since 2002 JDF development Reference: since 1999 projects with MAN Roland –over 20 man-years total project time

4. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 4 ixact Offer to our CIP 4 clients: Consulting ixFrame: standard components for JDF interfaces ixJED: workflow simulator, editor, testtool, sniffer

5. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 5 ixJED JDF toolset

6. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 6 ixJED: integrated toolset Test Development Service Functionality: Editor Validator Communicator Network sniffer Scripting interface - customized functions - automated testing - workflow simulations

7. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 7 Editor Supported file types –JDF –JMF –Mime multipart Editing –Treeview for JDF –Attributes in property grid (filteroptions) –views for Auditpool, source code, product topology –process view

8. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 8 Editor Editing –enumerations: listbox control based on schema –Timestamps: datetime control –Append node: pull down control schema based –support for reference editing –specific find dialog –find of references –flexible template directory

9. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 9 Validator Schema based validation –validation of whole files –validation of nodes –details in a result list –navigation to the errors by double click on list Automated validation –using scripting DEMO

10. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 10 Communicator Sending and receiving –Mime multipart –JDF –JMF Logging of communication traffic input hotfolder ixJED

11. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 11 Network sniffer or ixJED Server Device HUB Service laptop Server Device ixJED local running ixJED package sniffing between selected partners all protocol levels gathering all packages to a file open of files (jmf, mime mp, jdf) logging of files possible configuration of network card, filter, IP

12. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 12 Network sniffer

13. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 13 Network sniffer

14. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 14 Detaild help ( context sensitive )

15. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 15 Simulation  Scripting Using of Lua for scripting Lua wrapper for most of the ixFrame functionality Start of simulator with and without GUI (automated testing) Integration into other test environments: call parameter and exit codes Simulations are grouped in sets Logging of simulation runs

16. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 16 Build in functions GUI: Frames, controls, … Messages: send & receive, synchrony & asynchrony Threading: treatment of ixJED threads, synchronize Editor remoting: load, spawn, … Device functions & Datamodel functions Shell functions: exec of external files & applications … DEMO

17. Das Software Bauhaus 6. November 2005, © ixact GmbH 2005confidential 17 praxis report from Agfa scripting in ixJED for automated testing