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

Time for action – waiting for a condition

Typically an action may require some result to happen in the user interface before testing can continue. Since the SWTBot can run much faster than a human can, waiting for the result of an action may be necessary. To demonstrate this, create a Java project with a single source file and then use the conditions to wait until the class file is compiled.

1. Create a new method in the UITest class called createJavaProject.
2. Use the bot to create a new Java project by copying the createProject method as a template.
3. Add the org.eclipse.core.resources as a dependency to the plug-in.
4. Add a method getProject, which takes a projectName and returns an IProject from ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot().getProject().
5. At ...