Re: [RDT-Dev] RDT 0.5.0

[Markus B. <Mar...@gm...>]

Hi!

Great stuff, Chris. I've noticed that you've created a new plugin project
because I was scrutinizing ways to further improve the build and test
process for the RDT.

Using the pde.build scripts and the eclipse-automated-tests package we
can build RDT and run the unit tests afterwards with one command. I should
be able to prepare it for the next release. The build process would then
look like follows:

First update versions of feature.xml and plugin.xml from the Eclipse
workbench and set a version label in CVS. Then the build-script must be
configured: set a version label, the target eclipse release (which can
be a path to a zip file) and ruby interpreter. After that the script
can fetch the sources, build, deploy into target eclipse, start the
target eclipse instance and run the tests inside the target instance.

As a next step we could also add interactive ui-tests to the test-suite.
I've seen that as part of the JDT test-suite: Dialogs and editors pop up
and you can enter if the look is ok or not. That would have been useful
in the past, e.g. in the case where the preferences dialog did not appear
in eclipse installations, where the elder version of RDT hadn't been
removed.

A completly scripted build process would also give us the opportunity
of nightly builds, although we would need a host with enough memory
because two instances of eclipse are needed for the build and test run.
(Although driven by ant scripts, the scripts have to be executed inside
eclipse (with the AntRunner)).

I am looking forward to check your additions over the weekend and give you
feedback on sunday.

Markus


Chris Williams wrote:

> Markus,
>             I’ve done quite a bit of work and have created a Test::Unit
> plugin for RDT – it works much the same as the JUnit plugin but isn’t as
> full-feature just yet. I’ve gotten it to work fairly well so far, but I
> was wondering if you could take a look and see if it works out for you
> on Linux. If so, I’d like to try and release RDT 0.50 with it included.
>  
> On a side note I’ve been looking more at JRuby to see if we can leverage
> their work on parsing/compiling/generating an AST and the interpreter
> conversion in pure Java. So far I’m stumped, but I’ll keep looking. We
> might want to start e-mailing their list and asking around how best to
> try and use their code to accomplish what we need (an outline view AST,
> code completion, eventually refactoring, etc.)
>  
> Thanks,
> Chris 
> 
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