Jörg Reichert of itemis AG gave a presentation on advanced language testing with XPECT at the Democamp Berlin event on December 2, 2013. The presentation introduced XPECT and its features for testing Xtext languages and grammars, including position markers, wildcards, negation, and ignore tests. It also covered validation rules, linking, scoping, value conversion, content assist, and code generation capabilities.

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13.  Position Marker
 Wildcards
 Negation
 Ignore Tests
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34. Validation Rules
Linking
Scoping
Value Conversion
Resource Descriptions
Parser / AST
Derived Values
Serializer
Type system
Formatter
EObject Descriptions
Reference Descriptions
Content Assist
Autoedit
Quickfixes
DSL templates
Syntactic / Semantic Highlighting
Code Generation
Interpreter
Model inferrer

35.  Communication
 Verification
 Maintainability
 Examples
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XPECT official site:
http://www.xpect-tests.org/
XPECT Update Site:
http://www.xpect-tests.org/updatesite/nightly/
http://blog.moritz.eysholdt.de/2013/09/introduction-toxpect.html
http://de.slideshare.net/meysholdt/executablespecifications-for-xtext
Code examples:
https://github.com/meysholdt/Xpect/tree/master/org.ecli
pse.xtext.example.domainmodel.xpect.tests/src/org/eclips
e/xtext/example/domainmodel/xpect/tests
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