Re: [cdt-dev] FW: New CDT component - Some testing issues..

[Peter Graves <pgraves@xxxxxxx>]

Hey all,
  Related to this, at QNX I have recently gone through the process of 
Featureizing our test plugins, and ran into an issue we may want to look 
into when we move the core tests over to this new plugin. Currently most 
of the resources for the tests are within the source trees in .resource 
directories.  When you build the test plugins as part of a feature, 
these all get sucked into the .jar, and are no longer available in the 
directory trees where the tests expect them when installing the .zip, 
which makes the tests fail out.

This is fixable by moving the resources out of the source tree's and 
creating a root resources directory in the plugin, and then creating the 
appropriate sub directories under that for the various packages 
resources, and having the tests look there.  We can then add the 
resources directory to the build.properties and a feature build would 
pick that up automatically.  This would be a first step to being able to 
build a testing feature that we could post along with the automated 
testing results like they do over on the Java side of the world.
Is this something we want to do during the move?


And on the side of automated testing results..  I have committed some 
framework stuff in cdt-test-home under the testscripts directory which 
will run the CDT tests from the command line and then process all the 
results into reports similar to the jdt tests. There is a readme in 
there that describes how to use them as well.

I think later today or tomorrow I am going to put together a couple of 
my thoughts on the Junit testing side of things and drop them onto this 
list to see what people think, and see if we are all looking in the same 
direction.

Thanks,
 -Peter





Sebastien Marineau wrote:
> John, Doug,
>
> the org.eclipse.cdt.core.tests plugin has been created. Let me know
> if you run into any issues.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sebastien