Help documentation

Welcome

Introduction

Twist is a revolutionary collaborative functional testing platform from ThoughtWorks® Studios, designed to help you deliver applications fully aligned with your business.

Twist allows the functional behavior of a product to be expressed in plain text, using English like constructs. It provides a rich Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for defining, executing and maintaining the business intent of applications.

Twist is intended to be used by everyone on a software delivery team: customers, business and domain experts, testers and developers.

Installation and Upgrades

These links will help you get Twist installed/upgraded on your machine.

Getting Started

The following steps walk you through the basics of creating and executing a simple Twist project.

  1. Create a Project
  2. Create a Scenario
  3. Execute a Scenario

Getting around in Twist

Eclipse supports goal oriented layout of UI elements, a.k.a Perspectives. By default, the Twist Perspective contains the Scenario explorer, Scenario Editor and Problems View. It is possible to switch to a different Perspective such as Java perspective.

To understand more about the Twist user interface, see Navigating Twist for more. You can also use this list of Keyboard shortcuts that help improve productivity.

Support and other help resources

Apart form the help document (this document), you can also use the following resources: