Re: [swtbot-dev] general question about how SWTBot works

[Mickael Istria <mickael.istria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

• Am I right that the JUnit-SWTBot-test runs in the same VM as the target application?

Yes,
SWTBot Junit tests runs on a test thread that "feeds" the SWT EventDispatcher with UI Events to reproduce UI actions.

• Is there a setup to run it in a different VM or even on a different machine?

None that I am aware of.

• Does this also mean that I need a special build of my application for SWTBot testing (which includes SWTBot plugins and my test plugin), or can SWTBot be temporarily added to a shippable application?

No,
You can build your shippable application; and then build SWTBot tests, add them along with SWTBot bundles to your final application in order to test it. It is just a set of bundles to add to your application.

I am specially interested in these issues because our application needs multi user testing and I need to orchestrate parallel starts of our application on multiple machines. If every instance is running its own test in its VM it is just harder to synchronise.

I think this is a problem that is not related to SWTBot directly. It is more general.
Eclipse IDE is tested automatically on several platforms (OS, arch, JVM...), I don't know how it is done, but I think you can find some stuff on Eclipse wiki and Eclipse platform mailing-list.

HTH,

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Mickael Istria
R&D Engineer

email : mickael.istria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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