[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: JUnit source debug questions

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Kelem wrote:
> I'm running eclipse 20090621-0832 on OpenSUSE 11.0.
> JUnit Testing Framework Version 4.5.0.v20090423
>
> I want to:
> 1. be able to step through JUnit code while I'm debugging.
> 2. View the Javadoc for JUnit.
> 3. Upgrade (if necessary and/or easy) to JUnit 4.7
>
> #1 & #2 are the most urgent.
This should work out of the box as the Eclipse SDK ships with a JUnit 3 
and a JUnit 4 plug-in together with source.
> I figured that I didn't have the source jar for JUnit. When I 
> downloaded the latest JUnit from sourceforge, I found that version 4.7 
> is available.
> I don't know if I can just place the new jar file in the plugin 
> directory and have everything work, or if eclipse would break.
I guess this won't work as sourceforge probably doesn't offer it as 
Eclipse plug-in. JUnit 4.7 is planned for 3.6, see 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=272418.

Dani
> Thanks for any help you can give.
>
> Steve