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Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Alex Blewitt
Book Image

Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By: Alex Blewitt

Overview of this book

Eclipse is used by everyone from indie devs to NASA engineers. Its popularity is underpinned by its impressive plug-in ecosystem, which allows it to be extended to meet the needs of whoever is using it. This book shows you how to take full advantage of the Eclipse IDE by building your own useful plug-ins from start to finish. Taking you through the complete process of plug-in development, from packaging to automated testing and deployment, this book is a direct route to quicker, cleaner Java development. It may be for beginners, but we're confident that you'll develop new skills quickly. Pretty soon you'll feel like an expert, in complete control of your IDE. Don't let Eclipse define you - extend it with the plug-ins you need today for smarter, happier, and more effective development.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action: showing views


To show other views, the same mechanism is done in the UI tests as a user would do, by navigating the Window | Show View | Other… menu.

  1. Create a new method, testTimeZoneView, with an @Test annotation.

  2. From the bot, open the Window | Show View | Other… dialog.

  3. Get the shell with the title Show View and activate it.

  4. Expand the Timekeeping node and select the Time Zone View node (the view created in Chapter 2, Creating Views with SWT).

  5. Click on the OK button to have the view shown.

  6. Use the bot.viewByTitle() method to acquire a reference to the view.

  7. Assert that the view is not null.

  8. The code looks like:

    @Test
    public void testTimeZoneView() {
      bot.menu("Window").menu("Show View").menu("Other...").click();
      SWTBotShell shell = bot.shell("Show View");
      shell.activate();
      bot.tree().expandNode("Timekeeping").select("Time Zone View");
      bot.button("OK").click();
      SWTBotView timeZoneView = bot.viewByTitle("Time Zone View");
      assertNotNull(timeZoneView);
    }
  9. Run the tests...