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Hi,
I also used SWTBot a couple of years ago to test Eclipse IDE
plug-ins. SWT is quite low level and you don't want to implement
your test cases directly on its API. What I did at that time was
to create library on top of it with high level primitives (like
"create Java project", "add class", etc.). Such a library needs to
implement functionality to actually wait for conditions as most
operations in the IDE happen asynchronously. Then test cases
actually become actually quite stable.
Cheers,
-marc
On 20.11.16 15:33, Mickael Istria wrote:
Hi,
Disclaimer: I've been contributing to SWTBot for several years,
despite I try to be objective, it's very likely that I do not
fully succeed at it; so my answers here shouldn't be the only
one to consider in your decision!
On 11/20/2016 02:10 AM, Evgeny Mandrikov wrote:
My last experience with SWTBot was five years
ago, maybe something changed, but at that time it wasn't
easy/stable.
Not much changed for SWTBot. There is now a Test Recorder that
allows to get most of the test code recorded and generated
according to user actions, and there are a few fixes and
improvement added here and there; but it's still a Java API to
refer to widgets and interacts with them in a "human-like" way.
See
https://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2016/sites/default/files/slides/Introduction%20to%20Functional%20Testing%20with%20SWTBot%20and%20Maven-Tycho.pdf
for more details. SWTBot per-se has more or less always been
stable, but the fact is that it's not always easy to write tests
working in a stable manner (mostly because stability requires
properly dealing with waits and timeouts).
The nice thing is that it integrates very seamlessly in PDE and
Tycho, as it's just an API.
Another pro for SWTBot is that it has more users than RCPTT at
Eclipse.org I believe (such as EGi and TraceCompass).
Recently heard about RCPTT and quick try was nice.
I can't tell for RCPTT. I've never used it and none of the project
I've worked on has been using it.
I've had good feedback about it by Obeo's people using them on
some Modeling project, but that's about all. Also, last time I
heard about it, it seemed to be on another "grain" than SWTBot, as
it introduced a DSL, a specific runner and was not integrated with
Tycho. But I imagine some things have changed since them.
HTH.
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