GEF Support for SWTBot
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 
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
Just upgraded my blog to a newer wordpress…
… and just wanted to see all the parts are still moving.
Eclipsetasy! Time to throw away the dope…
… and move to newer dope…
I just realized that I had about 58 eclipse SDKs downloaded on my hard drive and 22 instances of different versions of eclipse. That was a whooping 9GB for the sdk downloads and 6.5GB for the extracted versions. Time to move to newer dope
Similar was the case on the cruise based build grid that tested SWTBot from all versions starting from eclipse 3.2 upwards to the latest RC build on all platforms — linux-gtk/linux-gtk-64/win32/macosx-carbon.
Eclipsetasy
Eclipse Galileo DemoCamp Pune
A reminder to those following Planet Eclipse that there’s a Galileo DemoCamp in Pune on Saturday, 13th June 2009. Sign up on the wiki page so that the ThoughtWorks Pune office is stuffed with enough food to feed you 
An Eclipse DemoCamp is a congregation of Eclipse enthusiasts to meet up and demo what they are doing with Eclipse. The demos can be of research projects, Eclipse open source projects, applications based on Eclipse, commercial products using Eclipse or whatever you think might be of interest to the attendees. The only stipulation is that it must be Eclipse related.