The tutorial is based on the following software:

• Windows 98 SE
• JDK 1.3.1_01 final
• Together 5.5
• JUnitX 5.1
• XPTest 2.1
• Ant 1.4.1

You are not limited to a special linux distribution or an Unix. All tools are pure Java, so you can use any operating system with at least JDK 1.2.x. Full functionality of XPTest is currently beeing provided on Unix and Win32. For Together, XPTest and JUnitX version exists for versions since 4.0. Newer versions of JUnitX and XPTest will provide more functionality and bugs will hopefully been fixed in it's new versions. A sufficient version of Ant comes with JUnitX and XPTest, so you don't need to download it unless you want to have the full docs.

Now let's look at the required installation steps:

• Operating system
  I recommend Solaris or Linux for serious development, but you have to install it yourself.

• Java Development Kit
  Take the newest production JDK version you can find and install it according to it's installation instructions. It is a good idea to set up your search path to include the java, javac etc. binaries.

• Together
  You can use the 15-day evaluation keys for Together Control Center, otherwise you have to be rich or work for the right company ,)

• JUnitX
  Since Together 5.5, JUnit and JUnitX are part of the distribution. For older Together versions, download the JUnitX 4.0b version with the source code. Create a path you like and unpack the archive in it. Copy the junitx-4.0b.jar archive from the lib path of the unpacked JUnitX archive into the lib path of your Together installation.

• XPTest
  Since Together 5.5, XPTest is part of the distribution. However you should download the latest XPTest source version. Please unpack the archive and change build/xptools.html to your needs. Then run the ant script (ant.sh or ant.bat) with the parameters all and install to upgrade XPTest.
  For older Together versions, download the xptest-together-bin-1.4.zip archive and unzip it's contents into the modules path of your Together installation. After restarting Together the new modules and patterns are available.

• Ant
  If you like to install the full Ant distribution, download it and install it according to its installation instructions.

I recommend to use another operating system than Windows because of various limitations. For example the command line is restricted to about 128 Bytes, the environment space is limited and there are problems relating to different Windows configurations.

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