[news.eclipse.tools.hyades] more help getting started...

[mpollack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mark Pollack)]

Hi,

I am very excited about this project and hope to be able to develop some
ideas I have for testing EAI solutions using it.  I hope you can provide
me with some more help getting started and understanding how I might go
about adding my own functional testing 'framework' into hyades. 

My first question is what to expect with the current distribution.  I
wrote a simple program and then launched it as a local process under the
profiling perspective.  I did not see anything other than empty content in
the various views: Object interactions etc.  I was only able to get an
profile.trcxml file, which aside from some introductory entries had many
entires such as 

<objAlloc threadIdRef="2" time="1052332283.161561500" objId="580"
classIdRef="4" isArray="4" size="80"/>

Should I be seeing things in the views?  What is the .trcxml file for?

I am using the April 2nd code drop and I have all the correct versions of
the dependent software.  By the way, what is in the May 1st drop to make
it so much bigger, I have not downloaded it yet.  Can I just 'overlay' the
previous installation when I do download it?

I've been using junit as a shell for performing functional testing but it
really isn't the best environment for this type of testing, hence my
descire to investigate hyades.  As a first step to working with hyades are
there any classes to run junit tests?  Is this something I should write
myself (I'm keen to do it).  I've read the various overview docs, but am
not making the connection of how I should develop a tool to specify a
functional test, run it, collect results, etc., within hyades.

Any advice you can give me on how to get started is greatly appreciated. 

Cheers,
Mark