Re: [ jEdit-devel ] Using Marathon to automate regression testing of jEdit

[Eric <ne...@wa...>]

Hi,
I've been using FEST since a few months.
It's sometimes pretty brittle but I managed to write some useful tests.

Here is where I stand now:
- some GUI tests for the SpellCheck plugin
- one can run them from ant (in a new jEdit instance for each class)
(ant test)
- a crude graphical test runner (screenshot at
http://cotcotpot.free.fr/dropbox/screenshot-junittree.png
, code at
http://jedit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/jedit/plugins/SpellCheck/trunk/src/test/cswilly/jeditPlugins/spell/JUnitTree.java).
 It's useful to run only one test in a class.It could be a building
block for a plugin...
(ant run, click on the buttons ;))

Meanwhile, there is JUnitPlugin in the repository.
It's not (yet) working for me (classnotfoundexception).
It could also be used to run FEST tests.

About Marathon : never heard about it before,
but I would be glad to see some tests, to compare with FEST-swing.

Cheers,
Eric

Alan Ezust a écrit :
> I would like to contribute in this direction. I have some experience
> with "Squish" another testing tool, and that's about it. But I've
> learned a lot about automated regression testing over the past 8
> months and would like to get involved more. I was just hoping someone
> else could start it, and then I could add to it. Also, I don't want to
> reinvent the wheel. I am hoping there is a framework we can reuse and
> add to.
>
> I'm perfectly willing to add other classes to this that would help us
> in further testing. And I want it to all go into SVN, perhaps as a
> jEdit plugin?
>
> The changing titles of the View problem is something I've encountered
> before in Squish. Basically, it needs to pick names for objects that
> it is recording scripts on, and it uses the windowtitle as part of the
> name-generation part for certain types, if it can't find a unique name
> elsewhere. With squish, we can change the rules it uses to make up
> names, and use other properties for better identification purposes.
>
> If we need to modify jEdit to make it more testable, (by giving
> objects better identifying properties) then let's do it.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Shlomy Reinstein <sre...@gm...> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yesterday I downloaded Marathon, an application for testing Java
>> applications, and tried to use it for automating some jEdit tests. I
>> am quite impressed with this application, as it could launch jEdit and
>> record scripts nearly "out of the box". There are some limitations,
>> mainly related to things in jEdit that are not very common, like
>> frequently / rapidly changing titles of the jEdit view. But all in
>> all, a very useful application that I think we can use to automate
>> jEdit regression testing.
>> I am willing to create a basic regression testing project in jEdit's
>> SVN for Marathon, and start with a basic set of tests for my plugins.
>> I think Marathon can really help raise the stability of jEdit. If
>> anyone else is willing to contribute in that direction, please let me
>> know. Also, if you have some good experience with other automated
>> testing tools with jEdit, let me know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shlomy
>>
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