JUnit is the testing framework of choice for Eclipse applications, and can be used to run either pure Java tests or plug-in tests. If user interfaces need to be exercised, SWTBot provides a facade onto the underling Eclipse application, and can be used to drive menus, dialogs and views.
In this chapter, we will do the following:
One of the original automated unit testing frameworks, JUnit has been in use at Eclipse for over a decade. Eclipse's quality can be partly attributed to the set of automated unit tests that exercise both UI and non-UI (headless) components.
JUnit works by creating a
test case with one or more tests, which usually correspond to a class or methods respectively. Conventionally, test classes end with Test
, but this is not a requirement. Multiple test cases can be aggregated into test
suites, although implicitly a project becomes its own test suite.