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

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Lars!

Besides the time the tests take, we
also have to make sure that we only run stable tests. One of my initial
frustrations when I started contributing to EGit via Gerrit, was that I
often got -1s from Hudson, but the test failures were unrelated to my contributions
- just some flaky test. Since then EGit made their tests way more stable.

Dani



From:      
 Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 "Eclipse Platform
UI component developers list." <platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:      
 03.09.2014 09:27
Subject:    
   [platform-ui-dev]
Test work for platform.ui
Sent by:    
   platform-ui-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

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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

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