[wtp-dev] proposed disconnected testing phase

[Craig Salter <csalter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to propose setting aside a
day or two of our M9 test phase to dedicate to testing WTP without an internet
connection.  I know in the past we've suffered from bugs in this area.
 Some of us are working on solving some of these issues for M9.  
I'd like to ensure we give this scenario enough focused attention during
the M9 test phase to validate fixes and flush out remaining bugs before
we wrap up WTP 1.0 development.   

For those of you who'd like to get started
testing 'disconnected' early a tracing tool is available that will allow
you to capture stack traces where 'http' internet accesses are attempted
[1].  

BTW, in WTP 1.5 I'd like to propose
a development mode [2] that discourages the use of internet resource references
(that aren't mapped to local files via XML Catalog etc.) and will provide
error or warning messages to flag these. This will be to support developers
who want to tightly control the resources that are getting fetched from
the internet and ensure that disconnected and connected development modes
behave consistently (or at least as consistently as possible).  See
the bug for more info.

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=109788
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=112970

thanks

Craig


Craig Salter
Rational Studio XML Web Services
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