Hi all,
In the context of JBoss Tools, we spend a lot of time writing tests.
We mainly rely on SWTBot for that, and we find out that a recorder
for SWTBot that would take as input user actions and generate the
Java code for that would be very helpful to save us time, and also
to get higher quality reports (people reporting bugs could directly
use this tool to report a test-case).
So we've worked on a simple-but-yet-efficient recorder for SWTBot,
together with Rastislav Wagner (JBoss Tools team too).
Since the JBoss Tools team also has its specific test framework
(called RedDeer), we made this generic and extensible enough to
provide the ability to plug another framework that SWTBot into it.
So by default, the generator would generate code conforming to
SWTBot API, but one can easily install the RedDeer support and then
choose to generate code that targets the RedDeer API; and it's the
same for any API.
The implementation just looks at Events and find a matching rule to
generate code for each Event. Support of (1 operation == N events)
will probably come later. It's pretty easy to contribute support for
new UI actions, it's just a matter of providing a new class.
This is in a very early state, but already supports the most common
UI stuff. You can see a demo of the generator in action here:
https://vimeo.com/55953990
The contribution is currently there https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/9301/
. I'd really like to integrate it into SWTBot soon to gather some
usage, feedback, and contributions. But before I check this into
codebase, I'd like to hear some feedback from this mailing-list.
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