Marc Guillemot wrote:
Hi all,
I think that a dedicated IDE support for WebTest could bring real confort
and efficienty and I'd like to start a WebTest Eclipse Plugin project as
sub-project (or related project) of WebTest.
Sounds great.
Some of the features I can imagine in such a plugin are (unsorted):
- advanced editing support
I already noticed that the ant plugin somehow supports webtest. At least
the webtest and steps tags. It seems that the sourcecode has to be
rearranged in order to have a better support. It seems that the plugin
tries to get all needed information from the class files.
- WebTest help integration
- wizards to quicky start a new webtest project
- integrated recorder (a bit like the Firefox plugin I've already presented
but integrated in Eclipse)
- a "run as WebTest" command launching selected test within the normal
complete WebTest setup
- a kind of debugger allowing to set breakpoints and visualize the received
pages while the test runs
- the possibility to continue manual or automatic surf from an executed test
- ...
sounds like a lot of work, but really great!
All these features will surely not be present at the first day ;-)
Before starting the project it would be interesting to know:
- if someone has already tried something in this direction
- who would use such a plugin
- if some WebTest users have Eclipse plugin development knowledge and would
like to contribute
As I tried to state above - I tried to get my ant plugin to work with
the "webtest-ant" and was surprised to see that (with a little bit of
configuration) it knows about those webtest tasks.
It's also been easy to configure an external tool to present a popup
which asks for the targets to execute and runs webtest. All output is
easily directed to the eclipse console. This way, working with webtest
is a lot better...
Cheers,
Ralf
Marc.
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