Re: [eclipsefp-develop] Testing

[Leif F. <hi...@le...>]

Thiago Arrais wrote:
> 2005/10/7, Leif Frenzel <hi...@le...>:
> 
>>Yes, automated testing is a very good thing. I have JUnit tests for some
>>of the more tricky functionality. I thought they were in the repo, but
>>I'll have to check ...
> 
> 
> My version has tests for the parser, but I couldn't find any other tests.
Right. My mistake, or at least half. I think I remember quite a few of 
the tests did no longer run when they introduced heavy parallelism in 
Eclipse (the Job API). I will have to make them work again. But I will 
push them too.

>>I haven't used Abbot, so I would have to have a look at it. Mainly, I am
>>suspicious of UI testing. Usually, if there is a good design that puts
>>all interesting functionality into core objects, there is not much left
>>to test on the UI (apart from some selection/disabling stuff etc., for
>>which one can use PDE JUnit). The interesting things can be tested in
>>the core without any UI stuff required.
> 
> 
> I agree with you that good designs are much productive that UI
> testing, but I am messing with UI code and I am not _all_ safe with it
> yet. The tests are working mainly as a safety resort for me here.
Sure. It's always good to have as much safety as possible (as long as 
the extra amount of work is in reasonable dimensions, of course ;-).

Ciao,
Leif

> I began with the ProjectCreationWizardPage class, I am trying to
> leverage it to (read: make it inherit from) the
> WizardNewProjectCreationPage while still maintaning its functionality.
> And what I want to test is mainly selection/disabling stuff (you got
> it!).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Thiago Arrais
> 
> 
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