Re: [tycho-user] Executing tests from pre-built test plugins p2 repo

[Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 5:19 PM Muhammad Umair Sair <umair_sair@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello everyone,

Hi,

I have a p2 repo that has test plugins. Now I want to execute tests present in those tests plugins without having their source plugins. Is it possible with surefire?

Maven/Tycho is artifact-centric, so you typically need an artifact to "host" each action. To work with this model, the simplest way is to create a dummy/empty test bundle which references the test plugins and include the specific tests from 3rd party plugins in a suite.

I just checked and tycho-surefire-plugin doesn't allow to run tests from another plugin. That would be an interesting enhancement request and patch to contribute.

Alternatively, you can probably hack something using the tycho-eclipserun-plugin to provision your test product and execute the tests with the uitestapplication or something like that. But it would make things easier on the long run.

HTH