Krishantha,

I've gone through the Robot Framework but I'm afraid that the comprehensive
widget support for SWT and GMF is less and it's at its initial stages.

As you have mentioned the Robot Framework provides and External Eclipse
Library [1] [2], which is based on the SWTBot and it's seems to be a better
framework in terms of less manual work once setup, compared to using the
SWTBot directly.

But under the 'Eclipse Library Limitations' section [3] it's been stated
that only the simple and basic SWT widgets are supported for the time being.

As the ESB plugin requires GMF Editor Testing, still I'm not completely
sure on to what extent the SWTBot itself supports GMF. It seems to be
supporting GEF and few popular blog articles state that via the extended
GEF support it supports GMF as well. Thus it could be a limitation as well
even when the SWTBot itself is used.

Thus adding an additional wrapper on top of the SWTBot (the Robot
Framework), could be a nightmare when it comes to the major concern, 'the
range of supported widgets'.

Anyway, I'll be considering and would try to incorporate the Robot
Framework once I get more control and understanding of this project and
thank you for this valuable suggestion.

Refs:

[1] http://robotframework.org/#test-libraries

[2] http://code.google.com/p/robotframework-eclipselibrary/

[3] http://code.google.com/p/robotframework-eclipselibrary/wiki/Concept


Regards,
Tharshayene Loganathan
Undergraduate,
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering,
IIT,Sri Lanka.




On 21 March 2014 11:07, Nila <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you Jasintha,
>
> as far as I understood, the Jiras contain pluggins (zipped code) those
> seems to be testing each plugin set of the Developer Studio and POM files
> are setup which contains Developer Studio plugin dependencies.
>
> Unfortunately I couldn't get any of them running, yet. But I got hints and
> the basic idea of what am I supposed to do.
>
> I'll be finishing a draft version of the Proposal around 3.00 pm (UTC +
> 5.30) and would share the doc link with you. Please review it and assist me
> via you valuable suggestions.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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