After completing Micro Focus COBOL Workbench 4.0: Testing Programs, the user should be able to:
 

	Employ the Step, Run and Skip functions to animate a COBOL program
	Monitor data items using Watch and Examine
	Backtrack through an audit trail of a program's execution
	Set and use breakpoints to halt execution at important points in a program

Animator V2 Basics
Introduces using the Animator V2 tool for testing purposes and explains the process of animation.
 

Getting Started

Capabilities and benefits of Animator V2.  Using Animator V2 as a testing tool.
 

Animating and Monitoring Your Program

Introduction to execution functions.  Employing the Step, Watch, Run, Examine, Skip and Do execution functions and commands.
 

Backtracking

Introduction to backtracking.  Reviewing program execution utilizing the backtracking feature.

Using Breakpoints
Introduces breakpoints and explains how they can be used while animating programs.
 

Standard Breakpoints

Overview of the basic concepts and terminology needed for working with breakpoints. Setting the two types of standard breakpoints.
 

Advanced Breakpoints

Setting the five types of advanced breakpoints.
 

Finding and Clearing Breakpoints

Locating breakpoints previously set.  Using the Compress and Expand functions to examine breakpoints. Unsetting breakpoints.

This course is distributed with sample files for exercises.