Hi all,
In the context of JBoss Tools, we spend a lot of time writing tests. We
mainly rely on SWTBot for that, and we find out that a recorder for
SWTBot that would take as input user actions and generate the Java code
for that would be very helpful to save us time, and also to get higher
quality reports (people reporting bugs could directly use this tool to
report a test-case).
So we've worked on a simple-but-yet-efficient recorder for SWTBot,
together with Rastislav Wagner (JBoss Tools team too).
Since the JBoss Tools team also has its specific test framework (called
RedDeer), we made this generic and extensible enough to provide the
ability to plug another framework that SWTBot into it. So by default,
the generator would generate code conforming to SWTBot API, but one can
easily install the RedDeer support and then choose to generate code that
targets the RedDeer API; and it's the same for any API.
The implementation just looks at Events and find a matching rule to
generate code for each Event. Support of (1 operation == N events) will
probably come later. It's pretty easy to contribute support for new UI
actions, it's just a matter of providing a new class.
This is in a very early state, but already supports the most common UI
stuff. You can see a demo of the generator in action here:
https://vimeo.com/55953990
The contribution is currently there https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/9301/
. I'd really like to integrate it into SWTBot soon to gather some usage,
feedback, and contributions. But before I check this into codebase, I'd
like to hear some feedback from this mailing-list.
--
Mickael Istria
Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools>
My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com> - My Tweets
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