[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: advice on test after deployment of RCP a

[Stefan Ukena <7ukena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Robbie,

I can see why you want to do this but besides maybe the obvious jdb I 
would have no idea how to go about this in a reasonable way.

Anyone else?

Hopefully future relaeses will make the differences disappear between 
self-hosted and deployed RCP-apps.

Stefan

Robbie Jameson wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> Many thanks for your reply.
>
> I mean how do you test an RCP application once some ant build scripts have
> built it and it is deployed somewhere entirely outside of the Eclipse IDE.
>
> If I am inside the IDE, I can run a plug-in test that will launch the RCP
> application for me and hand over control to the junit tests that will play
> about with it. I don't know how to reproduce this (for example in an ant
> script) when I'm outside of the IDE, the application is stand-alone, and
> there's no GUI and no Eclipse to help me set up this kind of special launch.
>
> Any suggestions are welcome!
>
> Robbie.
>
> "Stefan Ukena" <7ukena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ck5o97$oa0$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > Hi Robbie,
> >
> > Robbie Jameson wrote:
> >
> > > Could anyone give me some advise on how to test an RCP application after
>
> it
>
> > > has been deployed?
> >
> > I'm not sure if understand you correctly: do you mean how to test an
> > actually deployed application or how to test your own plugin-classes as
> > if they were deployed (i. e. using a bunch of mock-objects)?
> >
> > Stefan