Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Chapter 11. Automated Testing of Plug-ins

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:

• Create a JUnit test running as pure Java code
• Create a JUnit test running as a plug-in
• Write a UI test using SWTBot
• Interrogate views and work with dialogs
• Wait for a condition to occur before continuing

Using JUnit for automated testing

One of the original automated unit testing frameworks, JUnit has been in use at Eclipse for over a decade. Part ...