[platform-ui-dev] Test work for platform.ui

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

In the past we had commits which broke tests. Typically someone discovered that later and notified the developer. 

I think it would be good to include the tests in your Gerrit build trigger and I'm working on this for several test plug-ins. 

I use the following bugs for this work:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=441850 - Umbrella bug for activating the tests per bundle

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=443139 - Adjust Gerrit build job

I know that this will make the Gerrit build slightly longer, if that becomes a problem I think we may want to categories our tests and only execute the "not so long running" tests. To support this, I'm also looking into converting our tests to JUnit 4 which would allow to use JUnit categories.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=436344

Best regards, Lars