Ketan's Musings

A long pending request from swtbot users has been support for GEF. The SWTBot4GEF project was created as a sandbox to see how feasible things were in the GEF world.

Mariot Chauvin recently polished the initial contribution from David Green and released a version 0.1 of the gef support. We’re working towards integrating this as part of swtbot and you should hear more about it once the IP process is done

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

… and just wanted to see all the parts are still moving.

It’s official now. Sriram a colleague at ThoughtWorks has finally got a US Visa to speak at JavaOne in San Fransisco. He’ll be speaking on OpenGrok, “a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine.”

He compiles Mozilla on Opensolaris during nights, and has recently been working on getting SWT/Mozilla to work on OpenSolaris-gtk. He aims to eventually contribute eclipse builds for opensolaris. This would also get a lot og SWT based apps like the Google Web Toolkit(GWT) to work on OpenSolaris

You can catch up with him at JavaOne and the Eclipse Party at JavaOne.

Sriram lives here.