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

["Eric Clayberg" <clayberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jochen" <jochen.wuttke@xxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> 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.

Take a look at WindowTester for recording and playing back SWT / JFace / RCP 
JUnit tests...

   http://www.instantiations.com/windowtester/

Note that WindowTester is a commercial product that is free to developers of 
open source projects including any Eclipse committer.

   http://www.instantiations.com/company/opensource.html

-Eric Clayberg
Sr. Vice President of Product Development
Instantiations, Inc.
http://www.instantiations.com
http://www.windowbuilderpro.com/

Author: "Eclipse: Building Commercial Quality Plug-ins"
http://www.awprofessional.com/title/032142672X