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Eclipse 4 user interface testing with SWTBot [message #986756]

Wed, 21 November 2012 09:45

Eclipse User

Did someone already used SWTBot to test Eclipse 4 applications? Any special setup required or should it just work out of the box?

Re: Eclipse 4 user interface testing with SWTBot [message #987286 is a reply to message #986756]

Sun, 25 November 2012 12:24

Eclipse User

I remember Mickael Istria opened a thread about this and I was able to dig it up. Not sure if it is much of help.
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/368846/899578/#msg_899578

Re: Eclipse 4 user interface testing with SWTBot [message #987601 is a reply to message #987286]

Tue, 27 November 2012 05:08

Eclipse User

Thanks. I try to follow up on this with Mickael.

Re: Eclipse 4 user interface testing with SWTBot [message #987603 is a reply to message #987286]

Tue, 27 November 2012 05:10

Eclipse User

Thanks Sopot. Looks like SWTBot does currently not support Eclipse 4.

Bug 385527

Re: Eclipse 4 user interface testing with SWTBot [message #992459 is a reply to message #986756]

Fri, 21 December 2012 12:30

Eclipse User

Hi Lars, Sopot,

SWTBot works just fine on SWT 4.x. It's good enough with application
using the compatibility layer (we use it for future versions on JBoss
Tools, based on 4.2.x, and expeiment no issue).
A few corner cases are known but I don't consider them as blocking. They
have there bugzilla entries and won't be forgotten.

But I'm currently trying to work on the most critical one:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=391802
I can't have the test application to run the tests. Actually, I can't
have any pure E4 application to run any test, I don't think it's related
to SWTBot.

Is there something special to know to run automated tests in E4? I'm
wondering whether this is possible or not.

Cheers,
--
Mickael Istria
JBoss, by Red Hat
My blog: http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com
My Tweets: http://twitter.com/mickaelistria

Re: Eclipse 4 user interface testing with SWTBot [message #994062 is a reply to message #992459]

Wed, 26 December 2012 04:36

Eclipse User

Addendum: I'm speaking here about PDE tests inside IDE. It seems like the "Junit Test Plugin" lauch configuration fails to run tests when the target application is based on the E4 application model.
See comments and example on https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=391802

Did anyone successfully run a test case on an E4 application from PDE?

Re: Eclipse 4 user interface testing with SWTBot [message #996964 is a reply to message #986756]

Thu, 03 January 2013 04:50

Eclipse User

Using SWTBot to test an Eclipse 4 applications with PDE is blocked by
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=296599
--
Mickael Istria
JBoss, by Red Hat
My blog: http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com
My Tweets: http://twitter.com/mickaelistria

Re: Eclipse 4 user interface testing with SWTBot [message #997087 is a reply to message #996964]

Thu, 03 January 2013 10:20

Eclipse User

On 01/03/2013 10:50 AM, Mickael Istria wrote:
> Using SWTBot to test an Eclipse 4 applications with PDE is blocked by
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=296599

Also FYI, I've successfully run a (dummy) SWTBot test against a (dummy)
Eclipse4-based application with Tycho.

So I think that SWTBot may have some minor troubles with Eclipse 4, but
it works the same way it works for Eclipse 3 applications.

I now think that the big issue to fix is 296599 in PDE.
--
Mickael Istria
JBoss, by Red Hat
My blog: http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com
My Tweets: http://twitter.com/mickaelistria

Re: Eclipse 4 user interface testing with SWTBot [message #997094 is a reply to message #997087]

Thu, 03 January 2013 10:49

Eclipse User

@Mickael can you document, e.g. via a blog entry, how to run SWTBot against Eclipse4 with Tycho? Would be nice to know how to do this.

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