Difference between revisions of "JWT Tests"

Revision as of 06:22, 2 May 2008

Aim

The aim of this page is to list a set of tools and references that could be used to write tests in JWT, to put JWT into a continuous integration process.

Sources

Inspired by: http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/sub/attachments/TestDriven_Development_TDD_for_Eclipse_RCP.ppt

Resources and tools

Unit testing

• PDE JUnit. More informations in chapter 12 of Kent Beck and Erich Gamma's book: [Contributing to Eclipse: Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plug-In] (Translated in French at CampusPress edition)
  • Allows to use unit test that depend on Eclipse framework (loads Eclipse framework in another JVM, and then run tests)
  • It is advised to use one test plugin for each plugin we want to test. This way, we have a better control on dependencies, and it facilitate the use of Test-Driven Development.
• JMock is often used to create mock files in unit testing process.
  • Can we mock some SWT classes?

UI testing

Open-Source :)

• Eclipse TPTP
  • Eclipse Official Project
  • TODO: try it
• Fitster
  • http://fitster-eclipse.sourceforge.net/
  • does not seem really ergonomic
• SWTBot is a young tool that automates UI event and polls.
  • Very young project, does not seem mature enough
• Abbot is an open-source project that is may be able to record UI event an to automatically run them.
  • Abbot wiki page
  • This tool does not seem to be functional yet with SWT...

Commercial :(

• IBM Rational Tester
  • http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/functional/index.html
• Bretex proposes a tool that is able to *automatically* test SWT UI. This tool is named GUIDancer. However, it is a commercial software.
  • Here is their presentation at EclipseCON2008.
  • Since it is a commercial tool, it might be impossible to add this tool in JWT build. But maybe one day, it will be open-sourced...