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Re: [reddeer-dev] Features of RedDeer over SWTBot
Hi Hauke,

I havent seen SWTBot quite a while I cant really comment on what features they provide.

You mention that you are interested mainly in a big integration tests. IMHO RedDeer is a great choice for such use case. Please take a look at the example [1]. The example uses PageObjects API[2] of org.eclipse.reddeer.eclipse plugin, Test Requirements [3] and JUnit Extensions [4].


We also have a first version of Code Generator which will help you generate PageObjects code for opened wizard. You can install it[5] under category RedDeer Tools -> RedDeer CodeGen. When you open some wizard, just hit ALT+G.


Sorry for the broken wiki pages/lack of documentation, it is currently being worked on. The updated wiki part is here [6].



[1] https://github.com/rawagner/reddeer-helloworld
[2] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/PageObject.html
[3] https://github.com/eclipse/reddeer/wiki/Requirements
[4] https://github.com/eclipse/reddeer/wiki/JUnit-Extensions
[5] http://download.eclipse.org/reddeer/snapshots/
[6] https://github.com/eclipse/reddeer/wiki/User-Guide-2.0

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Fuhrmann, Hauke <Fuhrmann.Hauke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi there,

 

we are currently using SWTBot for automated testing of Eclipse RCP applications (combining it with PaxExam).

 

We stumbled over RedDeer and some community-folks recommend to use RedDeer over SWTBot, however they cannot really state what the killer-features of RedDeer are. So we wonder if it would really make sense to take the effort to change from SWTBot to RedDeer.

 

Can someone give (or point to) some “Management Summary” of the features that make RedDeer go beyond SWTBot?

 

I only found this

https://github.com/eclipse/reddeer/wiki/About-RedDeer

“RedDeer has been created as an alternative to SWTBot, offering stability, missing support for some Eclipse versions in its early days, providing own features, trying to address some issues introduced in SWTBot. Development on RedDeer is dated back to 9/2012. In 2015 we reached enough maturity to release version 1.0. To see complete change log and release, visit our website“

 

The link to the website is broken.

 

Or this

http://tools.jboss.org/blog/reddeer-100final.html

“At the beginning it was developed as an alternative to SWTBot but now it contains many features and tools which can help you with writing automated tests.”

 

I would be interested in what the “own features” would be or the “issues introduced in SWTBot”.

I learned that in RedDeer 2.0 the Recorder will be discontinued. So what’s really the essence of RedDeer over SWTBot?

 

Is there maybe a different focus? I understand that I can use SWTBot also for integration tests. From your API examples of RedDeer it looks like more an API for unit-tests testing single components rather than those components in a big integration test. Is that right?

 

Any information available?

 

Cheers,

Hauke



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