A listing of some of the new features available:

Bug 263036 – SWTBot finally has an icon that was missing since two years!
Bug 269919 – Added support for toggle buttons
Bug 271246 – Better support for handling editors. This should serve as a good start towards providing support for multipage, forms based editors
Bug 271132 – Using Display#post() to support sending native click events instead of fake events. This is still work in progress and not all widgets support native events yet.
Bug 273624 – Use native keyboard events for typing. SWTBot currently defaults to using AWT robot. SWT’s Dispay#post() is available as well — it is however buggy across platforms and swt versions. Since SWTBot uses native keyboard events, it needs to understand various Keyboard Layouts.
Bug 267189 – Support capturing screenshots of widgets.
Bug 277093 – Support for Link widgets.

There are also a lot of minor bugs that were fixed in this release.

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.

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.

A lot of folks have asked me if there’s a way I could provide any intermediate builds as and when fixes are checked in into trunk. To address this issue, I’ll be putting in some build scripts to push builds out of the CruiseControl running at ThoughtWorks.

Watch out for this space for an announcement about this…

What’s next, I hear there’s something called eSWT and eRCP out there, there’s also some search engine company doing something similar

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:

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.

Some features:

• A recorder API — now you can record SWTBot scripts.
• 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.

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

I’ll be speaking at EclipseCon about SWT/Eclipse testing, and lessons learnt along the way.

The lack of a good functional testing tool about a year ago, and given that there’s no problem in ‘writing yet another calculator‘ I decided to roll out my own over a few weekends

SWTBot is a functional testing tool for SWT applications, that also works for eclipse plugins, and work is still underway. I would be talking about my experiences in dealing with the various functional testing tools, the various pain points of functional testing for SWT and where SWTBot compares to these.

See you at EclipseCon.

Here is a quick list of features supported by SWTBot.

Here is a link to some sample code and screencasts

This time SWTBot makes a profound statement “Hello World“, to demonstrate what SWTBot is able to do. Click here to view full screen.

SWTBot also runs on Linux, although the screencasts are all recorded in Windows. Click here, in case you wish to look at the script that executes this.

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