User's Guide

Learn how to write effective Toffee tests by mastering Toffee's simple, intuitive commands. These pages assume that you have successfully created a Toffee Composer account and connected a Performer, as described in the Getting Started guide.

• Understanding Locators — Before Toffee can manipulate or test an element, it has to know how to find that element on the page. This is the job of locator expressions, or locators for short.
• Understanding Toffee Element Names — When writing your tests, you need to know the valid HTML element types associated with these simple Toffee element names.
• Command Reference — Curious how to accomplish something with a Toffee command? Browse the pages below, or use the search bar at right.
• Understanding Scripts — Create and run scripts that contain a mixture of automated and manual test steps.
• Understanding Manual Commands — Create and run manual tests in scripts for tasks that can't be automated.
• Understanding Aliases — Create, activate, and substitute simple alias expressions for real commands.
• Sample Scripts — The best way to familiarize yourself with Toffee is to examine working test scripts.
• Video Tutorials — videos that demonstrate how to install and use Toffee.