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How do you guys organize tests for plugins ? [message #116472]

Sun, 24 August 2008 23:37

Eclipse User

Hi all,

I was wondering how you plugin developers organize unit test for each
plugin you develop.

There're 2 options I can think of so far:

1. Place the unit test codes in separate plugin created exclusively to
contain unit test for plugins.

This is what I do now, but this approach forces you to make some
methods/classes public just to be accessible by test codes.

2. Place them in the same plugin to be tested under different source
directory.

This to some degree relieves the above problem but then we have to specify
dependencies to the testing framework in the plugin.xml which adds
maintenance burden when deploying to production.

Or is there any other alternatives that I'm missing here ?

Any advice shared would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

Setya

Re: How do you guys organize tests for plugins ? [message #116478 is a reply to message #116472]

Mon, 25 August 2008 00:09

Eclipse User

Hi,

This thread
http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.technology.equ inox/msg01431.html,
suggests that we put the tests in separate bundle and implement a fragment
to expose the private members of tested bundles. Does anybody have example
on this practice ?

Regards,

Setya

Re: How do you guys organize tests for plugins ? [message #116492 is a reply to message #116478]

Mon, 25 August 2008 10:54

Eclipse User

Setya,

I can tell you that I use the fragment method for containing my unit
tests. I get around the problem of making everything public by putting my
unit tests in the same packages as the classes I'm testing. I find it
works well enough for unit tests.

Setya wrote:

> Hi,

> This thread
>
http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.technology.equ inox/msg01431.html,
> suggests that we put the tests in separate bundle and implement a fragment
> to expose the private members of tested bundles. Does anybody have example
> on this practice ?

> Regards,

> Setya

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