Example Maven module running SWTBot

I wrote this short example to see how I could unit test an SWT application built with Maven, using the SWTBot framework.

The framework is distributed as a set of Eclipse plugins, so the natural choices are:

• Using Eclipse to run the tests manually. We can't accept this, as we want to run the tests automatically for continuous integration.

• Using PDE/Ant to run them automatically from a Eclipse instance. Our understanding is that PDE/Ant is rather unwieldy to set up and run, requiring a full-blown Eclipse installation.

• Using Maven Tycho. This would have been fine, except for the fact that our actual SWT app depends on a lot of pure Maven modules. Automating the generation of the associated OSGi bundles would require too much work.

Our ideal option was to run SWTBot in a pure Maven project, so we repackaged SWTBot and its dependencies (as listed in the OSGi MANIFEST.MF files) as regular Maven artifacts.

This repository is divided into three folders:

• eclipse-plugin-projects contains the Eclipse projects that we originally wrote and tested inside Eclipse. SayHello is the application itself, and SayHello.tests is a fragment project which tests the application. Our IsolatedShellTest superclass can be reused for any test suite which needs to recreate the main Shell of the application in every test.

• maven-deps contains a repackaged version of SWTBot 2.0.4 and its dependencies (based on Eclipse Helios 3.6.2), as pure Maven artifacts. If you're not using a repository manager, you can use install.sh to install those dependencies into your local repository.

• maven-module/sayhello is the mavenized version of the two previous Eclipse projects, using the repackaged SWTBot from above. You should change the <repository> inside pom.xml to the address of your repository manager, if you have one. If you have installed the dependencies through maven-deps/install.sh, you can also simply delete the <repositories> element.

Testing the SWT application is as simple as running the following command from the maven-module/sayhello directory:

mvn test

The source code for these examples is under the new BSD license. See LICENSE for details.

For running the supplied Maven module under Jenkins, this Stack Overflow entry should be useful.