Getting Familiar with Spoon

This chapter will show you how to work with Spoon by designing, debugging, and testing a transformation. In addition to exploring Spoon features, you will also learn the basics for handling errors when you are designing a transformation.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

• Exploring the Spoon interface
• Designing, previewing, and running transformations
• Defining and using Kettle variables
• Running transformations with the pan utility