Automate Testing for Eclipse RCP application - Software-Testing

Ralph,

I have posted a similar request before. There is not a lot of
discussion on Eclipse app testing. I have been using IBM Rational
Functional Tester for about the last month to automate tests against my
Eclipse plugin. Recognizing SWT controls seems to be the biggest
challenge, although so far I have been able to overcome everything that
cannot be recognized and uniquely identified using Functional Tester's
object recognition functionality. It is not cheap, but I couldn't find
anything in the freesphere that was proven against Eclipse.
I am VERY interested to know more about TPTP. I have tried to determine
what this is (and what it will become) and as far as I can tell, this
is a platform for building custom testing applications. Have you had
success finding discussion groups or practical examples regarding TPTP?

Hi,

Thanks for your advice. ^.^
For tptp, it's quite difficult to find some clear and easy to
understand resources on the web.
Here's one of the most useful resource (I think):
http://www.eclipse.org/tptp/test/doc...-Auto-GUI.html

>From my understanding and investigation, tptp 4.1 was not designed to
support automated testing for eclipse rcp application. But it seems
that version 4.2 will support rcp application testing.(I forgot where I
got this information). I have not verify it yet.

By the way, how much is the IBM Rational Functional Tester?
Thanks a lot.

The price for Functional Tester is going to depend on your relationship
wit IBM. We are a business partner so we have some options ranging
between $2K for floating and $8K for fixed. In order to playback and
organize test suites using Test Manager, you'll need to buy some
additional tools.

Thanks for the link. This is the first I have seen of the GUI tool. It
looks like they are building it with some functionality that is very
close to Functional Tester (which is not surprising considering the
contributions to the project from Rational/IBM).

Thanks Ralph. Keep posting here with your experiences. Thanks.

I have spent two days looking at automation tools for our Eclipse/SWT
product on jre 1.5

There is indeed precious little there.

So if you indeed find out more, please post your results here. I will
do the same.