Re: [dash-dev] Athena and tests on windows?

[Nick Boldt <nickboldt@xxxxxxxxx>]

+1 for contributed solution that will get us SWTBot tests run from 
Athena. Or JUnit4, for that matter. Send in those patches, ya'll!

N

Miles Parker wrote:
> Just a random wild thought, but what about running them inside of say
> VMWare fusion? They have to have some kind of isolated display model.
>
> The importance of doing this just became more clear to me I've been
> doing all of my development under Mac OS, and when working with
> Windows with a user I discovered that the widget behavior wasn't what
> I had expected and so one of my views wasn't doing what it was
> supposed to. Of course, this presumes that I had even written a unit
> test for that behavior.
>
> Which segues to.. One of many things I need to work on is getting
> SWTBot working under athena. If anyone else has an interest in doing
> this, please let me know.
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Nick Boldt <nickboldt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The script - runtests.sh - is currently in bash, but there's a stub -
> > runtests.xml - which if anyone ever gets around to translating, will run on
> > win/mac/lin - anywhere that Ant can.
> >
> > Problem with tests on win and mac is that to do them efficiently we need a
> > headless UI port, and only linux provides that. Mac provides a single UI
> > port for all logins, and Windows doesn't even have a notion of UI ports -
> > everything's on the same port.
> >
> > So, as Elias suggests, the best you'll ever be able to achieve is running
> > the tests quasi-interactively as they open/close Eclipse instances in front
> > of you and you hopefully do not accidentally click or type in them to
> > interact w/ the tests. Failing that, there's always kvm, virtualbox, or
> > vmware so you can have your own virtual linux box IN your windows machine,
> > and run your builds/tests there.
> >
> > http://wiki.eclipse.org/Common_Build_Infrastructure/Virtual_Server_Setup/Fedora
> >
> > Jacek Pospychala wrote:
> > > hi Elias,
> > > I remember trying to do this, but it turned out that script required to
> > > launch tests (runtests.sh) is written in bash. However one could try to
> > > launch it anyway using cygwin.
> > > Script has some parts exclusively specific to Unix platform (like starting
> > > the X session), but that should be easy to comment out. Then it invokes
> > > PDEBuild ant scripts which should run perfectly fine on windows.
> > >
> > > Curious, if that would work...
> > >
> > > Jacek
> > >
> > >
> > > Elias Volanakis wrote:
> > > > Quick question: can Athena run pde-junit tests on windows?
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Elias.
> > >
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