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Bug 311126

Summary:	Refactor the test framework so it can test RCP/OSGi applications
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Ian Bull <irbull>
Component:	Releng	Assignee:	Platform-Releng-Inbox <platform-releng-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	kim.moir
Version:	3.6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Ian Bull

2010-04-29 22:38:15 EDT

The Eclipse test framework is pretty cool. You can simply drop (install) the framework into your eclipse install and instantly run plug-in tests via antRunner.  Having this same functionality for RCP would be even better.  For example, we should be able to drop (install) the test framework in an RCP app (simple mail for example) and run both core and UI tests on that app. 

I found two problems when I tried to do this:
1. The test framework depends on the IDE.  If I want to install the framework into my RCP app I need org.eclipse.ui.ide and all of its dependencies.  

2. When you launch UI tests, it always starts the IDE application.  If I just want to test simple mail, I don't want it launching the IDE application.

I think we could refactor the test framework into a core (only equinox dependencies) and UI (RCP dependencies). 

Can anybody think of reasons why this is not doable?  (other time / resources to do it).

I'm filing this in the releng bucket because I have no idea where else to file things for the test framework.

Comment 1 Ian Bull

2010-04-30 00:19:28 EDT

I took a quick look and the RCP side of this looks very easy.  I don't think the dependency on ui.ide is actually needed (I can't see any reason why it's there), and the ability to specify the application to test is already done, it just hasn't been exposed in the ant task.

I'll take a shoot at fixing this up.

Comment 2 Kim Moir

2010-04-30 09:29:08 EDT

Thanks Ian!

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:04:24 EDT

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Comment 4 Eclipse Genie

2021-09-17 16:31:32 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

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