Introduction

Ladybug is one of the two test tools offered by the Frank!Framework. The proceeding subsections show you how to use Ladybug. The text is written as a tutorial, but feel free to just read this material and try it yourself.

If you use this text as a tutorial and if you want to follow the given instructions, you should apply the instructions in Preparations. This subsection explains how to set up the environment you need.

This tutorial is based on an electronic archive that once was built by an user. The archive has a portal before it that handles requests from users. The portal accesses the archive to service the user.

Not everyone can access to the real archive. Therefore, a very simple emulator of this archive is supplied within this manual. A download link is available in Preparations. The code provides the portal and the archive. The archive is capable of archiving a document and searching a document by id. When you archive a document, you get the document id you need to find it back. When you request a document by id, you get the document.

The archive and the portal have very simple implementations. There is no error checking whatsoever and the responses are fixed values. For the beginning of this tutorial, this is good enough. In practice, archiving a document returns a unique id that is needed to find the document again. This unique id is different each time a new document is archived. This has been implemented in two additional adapters that will be used by the end of this tutorial; these adapters leave the idea of a portal for simplicity.