JUnit and SWTBot – automated testing of plug-ins
JUnit is the testing framework of choice for Eclipse applications, and can be used to run either pure Java tests or plug-in tests. If user interfaces need to be exercised, then SWTBot provides a facade onto the underlying Eclipse application, and can be used to drive menus, dialogs, and views.
In this chapter, we will:
One of the original automated unit testing frameworks, JUnit has been in use at Eclipse for over a decade. Part of Eclipse's quality can be attributed to the set of automated unit tests that exercise both the UI and the non-UI (headless) components.
JUnit works by creating a test case with one or more tests—which usually correspond to a class and methods respectively. Conventionally, test classes end with Test
but this is not a requirement. Multiple test cases can be aggregated into test suites, although implicitly a project becomes its own test suite.
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