Description Krzysztof Jozefowicz 2016-01-07 07:41:08 EST

RED Robot Editor is tool for editing Robot Framework testcases.

Our functional tests are done with RCPTT, we recognized that there is a big delay while opening editor under RCPTT tests compared to standard RED usage.
This leads to longer test execution (now full tests last ~1h) which could be reduced more than 30% if delay would be non-existent. 

In summary, anytime RCPTT clicks on file to open it in RED editor, whole RED freeze for around 7-10s (around 7s on Eclipse Luna, 10s on Mars regardless Windows/Linux) which is unseen while using RED. While recording such delay does not happens also.


Profiling showed that org.eclipse.ui.IEditorSite.registerContextMenu method causes delay. 

RED can be found at GitHub: https://github.com/nokia/RED/releases

We are unable to figure out what RCPTT is waiting for, could you have a look from your side? 

below is a RCPTT script to reproduce delay, before run, install RED to eclipse.

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// change perspective to Robot
get-menu "Window/Open Perspective/Other..." | click
with [get-window "Open Perspective"] {
    get-table | select Robot
    get-button OK | click
}
// create Robot Project
get-view "Project Explorer" | get-tree | get-menu "New/Robot Project" | click
with [get-window "New Robot project"] {
    get-editbox -after [get-label "Project name:"] | set-text testproject
    get-button Finish | click
}
// Create sample robot file
get-view "Project Explorer" | get-tree | select testproject | get-menu "New/Robot Test Suite" | click
with [get-window "New Robot Test Suite"] {
    get-editbox -after [get-label "File name:"] | set-text testfile
    get-button Finish | click
}
// close file
get-editor "testfile.robot" | close

// open and close file two times
get-view "Project Explorer" | get-tree | select "testproject/testfile.robot" | double-click
get-editor "testfile.robot" | close
get-view "Project Explorer" | get-tree | select "testproject/testfile.robot" | double-click
get-editor "testfile.robot" | close