SWTBot Getting Started Video Tutorials
Getting started with SWTBot is a unique experience for a lot of users, and myself. Unlike most other projects hosted at eclipse.org, it’s an Eclipse UI testing tool written for primarily for testers to be able to write automated tests.
In this regard the users of swtbot are a bit special. Most of them understand testing and the principles associated with testing but do not necessarily understand swt, threading models and the workbench and platform internals. Getting such users to use eclipse, create test plugins and write tests in java involves more than just documentation and screenshots.
Mohammed recently posted two such 5 minute videos. Getting started with swtbot in under 5 minutes, and run your UI tests in a headless build from within ant.
A video is worth a thousand images 
Hey Ketan,
Many thanks for the video – with it, I was finally able to get a headless test running! One thing that blocked me for a bit was that I missed that these are the he supported values for os, ws (workspace) and arch:
os: win32/linux/macosx
ws: win32/wpf/gtk/cocoa/carbon
arch: x86/x86_64
But – it’s working now.
Question for you – as I’m hoping to make extensive use of SWTBot – what are your future plans – and release version plans – for the project?
Thanks again,
Len D.
Len DiMaggio
6 Aug 09 at 8:39 pm
@len,
Short answer: no plans for the future. SWTBot goes where you want it to
Ketan
7 Aug 09 at 1:51 am
Hi Ketan, thanks for the good work man…
At the end of your tutorial video “UI tests in a headless build” when you did ls command i saw 2 files in there: build.xml and runBotTest.bat. Can you please show me the content of runBotTest.xml?
When i execute ant command (MS windows) i am getting error: ‘ant’ is not recogonized as internal or external command….
Achille
24 Oct 09 at 10:23 am
@Achille,
You can download ant from http://ant.apache.org. The batch file is one line that contains:
$ANT_HOME\bin\ant.bat -f build.xml
Ketan
24 Oct 09 at 11:15 am
Hi ketan,
Would be happy to sync up with u on few question regarding swtbot. ping me in email when free.
Sree
7 Apr 10 at 11:51 am
Sree,
All SWTBot questions go to the forums. See http://wiki.eclipse.org/SWTBot/Support
– Ketan
Ketan
8 Apr 10 at 10:47 am
thx for the clips. now i have a good impression of swtbot.
is it also possible that you upload it to youtube, because that was my first attempt to find a live demo.
greetings from austria
gregor
gregor
20 Apr 10 at 1:09 am
Awesome tutorial… Thanks Ketan
Gourav Mehta
29 Nov 11 at 9:37 pm