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

["Robbie Jameson" <robbie.jameson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Stefan,

I'm going to try and solve this as it's quite necessary for producing RCP
applications that are built and tested regularly in an automatic way. I
suppose there must be some way of maybe re-using some of the eclipse.releng
release engineering code, but there's not much documentation and I don't
want extra complication for the build side of things.

Otherwise it may be necessary to write a special RCP app that does exactly
what eclipse does for launching plug-in tests and handle the running and
testing of the newly built application. Another possibility I can imagine is
maybe launching eclipse in a headless mode and finding a way to trigger a
launch of a plug-in test run configuration from a file on disk.

None of these options seem very simple or even particularly attractive, so
if someone has a better way or some field experience in this domain... maybe
they could kindly enlighten us!

Cheers,

Robbie Jameson

"Stefan Ukena" <7ukena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ck5sr5$bb$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi Robbie,
>
> I can see why you want to do this but besides maybe the obvious jdb I
> would have no idea how to go about this in a reasonable way.
>
> Anyone else?
>
> Hopefully future relaeses will make the differences disappear between
> self-hosted and deployed RCP-apps.
>
> Stefan
>
> Robbie Jameson wrote:
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> > Many thanks for your reply.
> >
> > I mean how do you test an RCP application once some ant build scripts
have
> > built it and it is deployed somewhere entirely outside of the Eclipse
IDE.
> >
> > If I am inside the IDE, I can run a plug-in test that will launch the
RCP
> > application for me and hand over control to the junit tests that will
play
> > about with it. I don't know how to reproduce this (for example in an ant
> > script) when I'm outside of the IDE, the application is stand-alone, and
> > there's no GUI and no Eclipse to help me set up this kind of special
launch.
> >
> > Any suggestions are welcome!
> >
> > Robbie.
> >
> > "Stefan Ukena" <7ukena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:ck5o97$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
> >
> >
> >