Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Extension point for running JUnit tests in a RCP Application instance?

One thing that has been on my wishlist is to be able to run the unit tests we have for Bioclipse from inside a running Bioclipse instance. That is, we have a Bioclipse Test Suite features on the update site, matching the functional features we have there. Each such test suite would run all JUnit tests we have for that feature.

The good thing about this is twofold:

  1. users can verify that their installation is working as intended
  2. the development team can easily run the test suite on foreign systems, without the need to install a fully operational Eclipse with Bioclipse development workspace
Now, the tricky thing is likely the following. How do we get to run all test suites? That is, I don't want to need to have to run the suites for each feature separately. Of course, this is exactly what extension points are for.

So, my question is, did anyone set up an system like this? And, is there an extension point that allows features to plugin additional JUnit test suites into a larger test suite dynamically?

2 comments:

  1. In the context of e4, Paul Webster has been adapting the eclipse test framework to get the tests suite installed into the SDK using p2.
    I don't believe there is any extension / extension point mechanism but it should provide you with a good base. HTH.

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  2. Hi Le ScaL!

    Do you have a link to Paul's work on that? Google is giving a lot of general build framework noise...

    Thanx!

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