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[swtbot-dev] Impressions and questions from a first time user 
Hi

Programming Java & eclipse is new territory for me. But with some decades of 
experience in SW it was time to discover a few new places. I am working on my 
GNU/Debian Linux x86 system, using the testing distribution.

I am interested in contributing to a free SW project elexis  
(http://www.elexis.ch/). It aims at helping general practitioners to keep all 
their records about patients, bills, drugs, etc in electronic form. It is 
written by by Swiss general practitioner Gerry Weill who took a long time to 
decide whether he wanted to study medicine or computer science and is used by 
50 or more medical doctors in Switzerland.

As I love to use Ruby and test driven development I naturally started looking 
at the tests and there were just a few JUnit tests. No GUI tests. This is bad, 
as there are people working on a french translation, which will need some 
minor code changes and a lot of new (French instead of German) screenshots.

I took a closer look at SWTBot and liked quite a few things. I think it could 
provide me with a good abstraction level to write tests.

Therefore I started coding in Java a little, which made the following hurdles 
appear:

a) As elexis has overridden WorkbenchAdvisor, a login dialog for the DB comes 
up first. One has to manually enter a username/password before SWTBot gets 
control. Does anybody has a hint where I have to patch SWTBot/elexis in order 
to pass control to SWTBot first?

b) The application takes about 15 seconds on my MacMini to startup/setup the 
DB. It took me a while to install/grasp the main ideas for JRuby, eclipse-
shell, glimmer. But this allowed me to test interactively the 
glimmer/samples/login.rb. I definitively love the idea of using an interpreted 
language to develop the test cases.

c) As there are quite a few perspectives, dialogues, windows, etc to test I 
(as a newcomer to the elexis source code) find it a daunting task to discover 
how all these GUI elements are grouped, named and accessible via SWTBot.

Does anybody now of a utility or SWTBot functions about how to dump the GUI 
elements? I see that there is a "SWTBot EclipseSpy view". Should I add it to 
elexis? 

I would find it handy if I could enter in my jirb windows a command like:
include_class Java::org.eclipse.swtbot.swt.finder.SWTBotFactory
SWTBotFactory.active_shell.dump_gui_elements

d) Trying to understand/modify SWTBot I tried to install it from source and 
failed miserably. See the attached log files. The problem I did run into is:
>      [java] BUILD FAILED
>      [java]
> /home/src/swtbot/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_3.5.0.v20090527-1800
>/scripts/build.xml:35: The following error occurred while executing this
> line: [java]
> /home/src/swtbot/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_3.5.0.v20090527-1800
>/scripts/build.xml:91: The following error occurred while executing this
> line: [java]
> /home/src/swtbot/org.eclipse.swtbot.releng/customTargets.xml:11: The
> following error occurred while executing this line: [java]
> /home/src/swtbot/org.eclipse.swtbot.releng/allElements.xml:12: The
> following error occurred while executing this line: [java]
> /home/src/swtbot/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_3.5.0.v20090527-1800
>/scripts/genericTargets.xml:106: A cycle was detected when generating the
> classpath org.eclipse.swtbot.junit4_x_2.0.0.201001052001,
> org.eclipse.swtbot.swt.finder.test_2.0.0.201001052001,
> org.eclipse.swtbot.junit4_x_2.0.0.201001052001. [java]
>      [java] Total time: 1 second
>
> BUILD FAILED
> /home/src/swtbot/org.eclipse.swtbot.releng/build.xml:192: Java returned: 13
Any help would be appreciated.

If it is considered a good idea I would not hesitate to invest a few hours in 
order to documents my experiences and publish an example on how to test a 
simple SWT application and/or glimmer/samples/login.rb using SWTBot, eclipse-
shell and JRuby. What do think about it?

Best regards

-- 
Niklaus Giger
Wieshoschet 6
CH-8753 Mollis
+41  (0)55 612 20 54 P
+41  (0)55 618 64 68 G

Buildfile: build.xml
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check-dependencies:
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download-eclipse-sdk:

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download-ant-libs:

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setup-tar.gz:
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guess-junit-version:
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guess-pde-build-version:
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create-build-properties-from-template:
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initialize-environment:
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guess-junit-version:
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make-substitutions-4.5:
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make-substitutions-4.3:

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BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 36 seconds

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check-dependencies:

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check-conditions:
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guess-pde-build-version:
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create-build-properties-from-template:
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initialize-environment:

printjvm:
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clean:
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init:
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copy-features:
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copy-plugins:
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create-version-files:
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copy-sources:

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pde-build:
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