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Run As JUnit Plug-in Test [message #328308]

Wed, 21 May 2008 09:58

Manuel Selva

Messages: 189
Registered: July 2009
Location: Grenoble, France

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Hi,

I successfully wrote my first Test Plug-in. All works fine but I noticed a
strange thing (Certainly a glitch from side ...).

When an Error is logged into the Error log (associated to the workspace of
my JUnit Plug-in Test launchn configuration) PDE / JUnit don't tell me of
such an error. All my tests succeeded so I though thta all worked fine but
.... I had an error in the error log but I just noticed it now ... (by
chance !!!)

Is there any way to tell PDE/JUnit to inform the user each time an Error
is logged into error log the same way test failure are presented to the
user ?

Thanks

Manu
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Re: Run As JUnit Plug-in Test [message #328312 is a reply to message #328308]

Wed, 21 May 2008 12:23

Marco Maccaferri

Messages: 147
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

On 21/05/2008 11:58 Manuel Selva ha scritto:

> Is there any way to tell PDE/JUnit to inform the user each time an Error
> is logged into error log the same way test failure are presented to the
> user ?

AFAIK, there is no such way.

However, the problem is that you are testing a method that catches and
log that error. You should test the method that actually throws the
exception so it can be catched by JUnit and handled like a failure.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Marco.

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Re: Run As JUnit Plug-in Test [message #328317 is a reply to message #328312]

Wed, 21 May 2008 13:23

Manuel Selva

Messages: 189
Registered: July 2009
Location: Grenoble, France

Senior Member

Hi Marco,

Thanks for your answer. The problem is that the method throwing the
exception is an Eclipse mathod and not my method. More accurately it's the
IWorkbenchPage.showView method throwing a PartInitException (because I
forgot to set the AllowMutiple field in my extension description) ...

Manu

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Re: Run As JUnit Plug-in Test [message #328321 is a reply to message #328317]

Wed, 21 May 2008 14:34

Marco Maccaferri

Messages: 147
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

On 21/05/2008 15:23 Manuel Selva ha scritto:

> Thanks for your answer. The problem is that the method throwing the
> exception is an Eclipse mathod and not my method. More accurately it's the
> IWorkbenchPage.showView method throwing a PartInitException (because I
> forgot to set the AllowMutiple field in my extension description) ...

You can test that method too, something like:

testCanOpenMultipleViews() {
activePage.showView("primary", "secondary", VIEW_ACTIVATE);
}

Or, if showView is called from a more complex method, you can move the
commands to a method that passes the exceptions upstream. For example,
if it is contained in a Action.run method that catches the exception and
display a dialog to the user, move the code inside the try/catch block
to a method with the throws clause and test that method. The run method
simply calls the new method inside the try/catch block.

Regards,
Marco.

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