Overview of Eclipse RCP UI testing tools

Eric Le Merdy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:26:00 +0200

-All datas collected during Summer 2008-

Product	Type	Licence	Source	Status
Abbot	framework (AWT/SWT)	open source	Sourceforge	alpha for SWT (but seems pretty stable)
Costello	recorder (AWT)	open source	Sourceforge	not ready for SWT
GUI Dancer	recorder	commercial	Bredex GmbH	new version in july 2008
JDemo	framework	open source	Sourceforge	2008
Mercury WinRunner	recorder	commercial	Mercury	End of support (feb 2008)
QF-Test	recorder (XML/Jython)	commercial	Quality First Software GmbH - Kapitec (FR)	2008
Rational Functional Tester	recorder	commercial	IBM
SWTBot	framework (SWT)	open source	ThoughtWorks	not fully SWT compatible but ThoughtWorks can be considered as trustable.
TPTP Automated GUI Recorder (AGR)	recorder (XML/Java)	open source	Eclipse.org	maintained ? but "as-is" component
WindowTester	hybrid (java)	commercial / free for opensource commiters	Instanciations	high quality product

This matrix is based on this article from the WindowTester architects ; this product list is enforced with the following post comments where people chat about their uses.
Feel free to visit the del.ico.us links where I store framework's related ressources on the fly. I am working on this subject until a satisfying product can be identified, so I will add some new links soon (screencasts and tutorials are the forthcomming waited material). I am glad that the Eclipse community is doing a substantial effort in 2008. For exemple, there was less submissions on this subject for EclipseCon2007 last year.

Eclipse 3.3 SSL Plugin

ericlemerdy — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:20:00 +0000

As a fervant user of the freepository service, I use the Rolf K. Wilms Eclipse plugin in order to synchronise my personnal sources with this free online cvs service.
Although the plug-in is working great with Eclipse 3.1 and 3.2, there is a problem with the Eclipse 'Europa' (3.3). Any previously shared project lead to a NullPointerException when trying to synchronize. A breakthrough as been proposed on Freepository's forum topic. It is to re-share your project.
Anyway, thanks to the CPL licencing of the plug-in, I've 'opened the box' and fix the problem. With this version, you will only be re-prompted for your password when migrating your project from Eclipse 3.2 to 3.3. After contacting Rolf, he says he is not ready to make a release in his name, so I just propose you my modified version (I've just changed 2 lines, with a well design code like this plug-in, it was quite easy).
rwi.eclipse.team.ccvs.ssl_3.3.0.zip

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Overview of Eclipse RCP UI testing tools

Eclipse 3.3 SSL Plugin