After reviewing several tools for writing UI tests for Eclipse based products, I finally settled down on SWTBot. Testing UI code is not an easy undertaking, in general. What drove me towards SWTBot was the simplicity in writing tests, and also their ongoing effort in providing support for GEF (Graphical Editing Framework). Not to say that other tools do not provide nice features. I have heard that Window Tester from Instantiations is also good and provide good support. But SWTBot provided the quick start I needed to get some tests writting for the UI (ofcourse EPL license helps!
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July 31, 2009
April 3, 2009
Comparison of table implementations for Eclipse SWT – KTable, Eclipse Nebula CompositeTable, and SWT Table
The stock table implementation in SWT Table is good enough for the common case; but once your requirements grows complex – such as the need to resize rows – it falls short. There are a couple of alternate table implementations worth considering - KTable and Eclipse Nebula CompositeTable. (more…)