#82 Allow navigation to unit tests in Maven artifacts

[Nicolas Demengel]

Copied from https://sourceforge.net/p/moreunit/bugs/132/ (Roland Illig)

At work I use many Maven artifacts, most of which are open source and have their unit tests published. Occasionally I’d like to have a look at these unit tests, e.g. when the Javadoc doesn’t explain all the details or when I don’t know how to program against a specific interface.

My idea is that the m2eclipse plugin downloads the unit tests of all my Maven artifacts (I’ve asked for this in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=461329), and whenever I view the source code of such an artifact, I can simply press Ctrl+J to see the unit test of that class.

[Nicolas Demengel]

Hi Rolland,

It seems like a useful addition! That said, I doubt we will consider it because of the following reasons:

• We don't have as much time as we had in the past for developing MoreUnit, so we tend to focus on maintenance or small additions related to the core features of MoreUnit.
• I've no precise idea of the work required to implement that yet, but it seems costly: we would need to create an optional part of MoreUnit that depends on m2e, study their API and hope it will work as advertised (which often isn't the case in Eclipse's world) and finally implement the navigation feature itself (probably the easiest part as it should involve the same stuff as for navigating within project sources).
  And as you said it is an occasional need, so it might not be worth the effort.

Of course, we may find some time later and implement it. And any external contribution would be welcome, if you're tempted!