Ketan's Musings

SWTBot has been proposed as an eclipse project.

Everyone is invited to comment on and/or join the project. Please send all feedback to the SWTBot newsgroup (web link).

See you all there.

For the impatient:
Direct download link: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=188411&package_id=220519&release_id=622752

Update site: http://swtbot.sourceforge.net/latest/update-site/

SWTBot 1.2.0 is the 3rd of the 1.x releases of SWTBot was released last night, and there have already been about 200 downloads by the time of writing this blog post.

SWTBot has always believed in release early release often mantra, and pushes out nightly builds out of CruiseControl. From the download stats I’m looking at, there are more downloads of the nightly build than the ‘stable’ available on the sourceforge mirrors.

The highlight of the release is support for view menus and view toolbar.

Thanks to the contributors and adoptors, for patches, criticism, and suggestions for improvement. The release has fixed about 42 issues.

Read more on the detailed release notes and the changelog.

I just made new release of SWTBot – 1.0

Direct download link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=188411&package_id=220519&release_id=601136

Update site: http://swtbot.sourceforge.net/latest/update-site/

Some features:

• A recorder API — now you can record SWTBot scripts. Still in beta though.
• Better SWTBot integration in eclipse — now you can run tests within eclipse.
• More API — now you can use more SWT controls using an even richer API.
• More stable than before.

For more details, you can read up on the release notes here.

It is amazing how a talk at EclipseCon can get higher visibility to an otherwise unknown and unheard of project.

SWTBot.org was taking less than 10MB of web page views before, it now takes about 100MB, even before my talk is done with. I’ll let the graphs talk for themselves:

I’m sitting here at EclipseCon, and the coolest thing about this is getting to meet a lot of interesting people around.

A few folks spoke to me about SWTBot, and asked for a few feature requests. I promptly added those, and checked them into SVN, and my CruiseControl instance at ThoughtWorks says green. Hurray yet another build that can be pushed into production.

Catch hold of me if you are interested in knowing more about SWTBot.