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Re: [platform-help-dev] validating InfoCenter Eclipse on a new platform

Erik,
helpsniff.bat is not going to work.  It is a left over from early days of
junit in Eclipse.  Currently, we launch tests from the workspace, and the
release team runs a command line version of them.  I am not sure what
required setup is for that.

On a new server platform, I would recommend manual testing of combination
of starting, stopping, restarting infocenter with browsing few topics and
obtaining search results for sample docs in English and few other
languages.  Everything else can be tested on desktops OSes.

Konrad Kolosowski
Eclipse Help System



                                                                                                                                              
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Hi, InfoCentrans:

Which actions would be advised to validate the InfoCenter Eclipse help
system on a new server platform?

The first step would seem to be to run the Eclipse help tests on the server
platform:

   http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.help.tests

Would the procedure resemble the following:

   Install the full Eclipse framework on the platform.
   Download the org.eclipse.help.tests plugin to the Eclipse installation.
   Build the Java sources of the org.eclipse.help.tests plugin.
   Run the AllHelpTests.java test (as shown in the helpsniff.bat invocation
   file).

On which other plugins does InfoCenter Eclipse have dependencies?  How
would these dependency plugins be validated?  I'd expect to need to
validate Eclipse platform core, but I didn't find an equivalent test plugin
for Eclipse core.  Does one exist?  I assume there's no reason to validate
the platform's Java UI component or build and edit components.

In addition, I assume it's a good idea to run manual tests to validate the
Eclipse help client functionality and, thus, provide additional validation
of the server functionality:


http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-help-home/testing/scenarios.html


Ignoring, of course, the sections titled "Integration With the Workbench"
and any test that mentions infopop or active help functionality, since
these aren't supported for InfoCenter Eclipse help.

Other suggestions for validating InfoCenter Eclipse on a new platform?


Thanks in advance,


Erik Hennum
ehennum AT us.ibm.com

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