Getting Started

Contents

• Home
• Prerequisites to Using Red Deer
• Downloading Red Deer
• Running the Examples
• Building Your First Red Deer Test
• What's Next?

Prerequisites to Using Red Deer 

• Eclipse Juno (JEE Package is recommended)
• SWTBot (http://download.eclipse.org/technology/swtbot/helios/dev-build/update-site)

Installing Red Deer 

• In Eclipse: Help -> Install New Software
• Add one of the these update sites:
  • Last stable: http://p2-reddeer.rhcloud.com/stable/
  • Specific version: http://p2-reddeer.rhcloud.com/release/[v0.0.1|v0.0.2]
  • Devel site http://p2-reddeer.rhcloud.com/master/
• Select All, Next, Next, Accept, Finish, Restart

RedDeer and Maven/Tycho

• if you have maven/tycho-based build and test execution then update test pom.xml to add all RedDeer dependencies

<project>
...
<repositories>
   ...
   <repository>
      <id>red_deer</id>
      <!-- replace url value with any RedDeer update site you require --> 
      <url>http://p2-reddeer.rhcloud.com/stable</url>
      <layout>p2</layout>
      <snapshots>
         <enabled>true</enabled>
      </snapshots>
      <releases>
         <enabled>true</enabled>
      </releases>
   </repository>
   ...
</repositories>
...
</project>

Running the Examples 

Building Your First Red Deer Test 

What's Next?