[news.eclipse.platform] Re: How to do GUI tests

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jochen schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to do JUnit tests of the user 
> interface part of my plug-in. Since some of the stuff that happens with 
> the various GUI contributions (in particular actions, commands, content 
> type filters, etc.) is not 100% trivial, I'd like to have some JUnit 
> tests, that simulate the user behavior, which would trigger execution of 
> the corresponding code.
>
> I tried to find some tests for the org.eclipse.*.ui plugins, but none of 
> the things I could find were doing tests like that. So, I tried to 
> programmatically select the elements in the navigator view, for example, 
> and was hoping that that would trigger the corresponding 
> "selectionChanged" events. But I didn't even get that far, because 
> somehow I cannot even initialize the GUI properly, it seems to remain 
> stuck at the "Welcome" screen.

This won't work in SWT. You need to post those events using Display#post().

> I'm a bit lost and would appreciate any pointers to what to look at.
> Thanks a lot

You can 
take:http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.ui.tests/ 
there a the main platform-UI tests. When testing RCP you'll need to use 
a Launcher.

Tom

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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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