[m2e-dev] JDT JUnit view integration for m2e

[Jean-Remi Desjardins <jeanremi.desjardins@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am working on a Google App Engine project at my job and I am using 
m2e. It's working great for me except for one little thing that I would 
want to have changed and of course I am willing to put the time to make 
it better unless it seems to hard for me right now.

So my problem is with the JUnit view in Eclipse. My current workflow 
(and this happens VERY often since I am trying to apply the principles 
of test driven development as much as possible) is to run "maven test" 
from the "Run As" menu. I then wait for the tests to finish and run the 
project as a JUnit project.

I do this because I find that the JUnit view makes it much easier and 
much faster for me to navigate my test results. The reason I don't just 
do "Run As" JUnit project is because this doesn't seem to rebuild the 
project even if I modified a part of it. Btw, I could probably get away 
with maven assembly and then "Run As => JUnit Test" but it still seems 
like it's definitely not the ideal solution.

So in my mind, the ideal solution would be to use the JUnit view like it 
is used for a normal Ant based Eclipse project. But this could involve a 
lot of work and I think it would be best for me to keep it simple at first.

I did a bit of research and found that Surefire generates a xml file 
that represents the result of the JUnit test and that you can open these 
results in the JUnit viewer, this is interesting and my might change my 
workflow to consider this. I also found a function call in the JDT JUnit 
API that allows to load such files programmatically.

So I would like, as a first step, to implement a sort of hook that 
refreshes the JUnit view when the test goal is executed. The view would 
then show up when I just want to test or when I want to deploy. The bar 
would not progress like it does for an Ant based project but it would be 
a good start.

I found bug 349257 in Bugzilla that proposes an enhancement for 
something very similar. But would still be interested in trying to 
implement what I just exposed as I believe it to be even better for the 
user (in this case myself).

So let me know if this is a good idea. Should I submit an enhancement 
request through Bugzilla? Would I be stepping on someone's toes by 
trying to implement this feature?

Let me know also if anyone feels they could point me the good direction 
for this.

Is there somewhere I could find some information on building the 
project? Because I must admit I did a project import from the git 
repository using EGit and I had a tons of errors. The build path is 
probably wrong for some reason.

Cheers,
Jean-Remi Desjardins