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Best option for automated plugin testing? [message #798514] Tue, 14 February 2012 14:42 Go to next message
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What's the best option for automating plugin tests these days?

I've read a couple of articles at Eclipse Corner,

http://www.eclipse.org/resources/resource.php?id=424
http://www.eclipse.org/resources/resource.php?id=156

as well as the references to those articles and the pages on the Eclipse Testing Framework.

I've tried all of the different methods with Eclipse Indigo, but none of them seem to work. They all appear to be just too old. For example, the Eclipse Testing Framework is no longer maintained; Pulling org.eclipse.test from the repo and rebuilding it fails because of the use of "PlatformRunnable." The Platform Release Engineering tools, (Releng), also no long contain org.eclipse.test.

My plugins are building nightly with Hudson and publishing to my site, but I'd like to test them too. Any thoughts?

I have posted this question in the TPTP forum. After looking closer it seems that TPTP is for building tools, not testing Eclipse plugins and the post is therefore more appropriate to the PDE forum.

Jay
Re: Best option for automated plugin testing? [message #798521 is a reply to message #798514] Tue, 14 February 2012 14:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Check my blog page http://lubospeclipse.wordpress.com/eclipse-plugin-and-rcp-development-notes-2-2/ and scroll down to debugging, testing, there are some links about different ways to test plugins Jubula and WindowsTester Pro are the test tools for functional UI testing.
Re: Best option for automated plugin testing? [message #798573 is a reply to message #798521] Tue, 14 February 2012 16:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Lubos,

Thanks for the quick response!

I think that Jubula will be great for testing the UI plugin of my RCP product. I've used SWTBot in the past, but it would be great to switch to the user-oriented view of Jubula. I've looked at Rational Functional Tester for that in the past, but it can be very expensive if one requires many licenses.

I also have seventy two junit tests for other plugins that I would like to run. These junit tests are spread across several plugin fragments for each of the different plugins. Do you have a suggestion for these? It would be great to get them working with Hudson.

Thanks again,
Jay
Re: Best option for automated plugin testing? [message #800842 is a reply to message #798573] Fri, 17 February 2012 10:38 Go to previous message
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The solution to my question appears to be Maven+Tycho.

http://www.eclipse.org/m2e
http://www.eclipse.org/tycho

Jay
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