Was looking at the F4 (eclipse fantom ide) site today and noticed this page: Q7 runner
and now I'm fascinated, watching it go.
Seems to be an automated UI test runner called Q7, and they exercise it by having it build the F4 ide and run it thru a boatload of tests. So the point is "UI test runner", but the other point is "see what F4 can do". Impressive, both ways.
Not affiliated, but wish I was. This is something else.
ivanWed 18 Jan 2012
Thanks a lot, Kevin!
Q7 is our UI testing tool for Eclipse done right, which includes (but not limited to :)) a headless runner for test execution during continuous integration. And pushing effort to Q7 is the reason why we didn't pay as much attention as we would like to F4 itself during last year.
Currently we have about 250 UI tests for F4, and we want it to be a reference test suite for IDEs, so I think we might officially open-source F4 pretty soon (unofficially we already did it -- there's git repo simply put on http here). Unfortunately, right now F4 pods can be built only in F4 itself, so our continuous integration just packages pods into Eclipse plugins, runs tests and packages products for all platforms.
KevinKelley Wed 18 Jan 2012
Was looking at the F4 (eclipse fantom ide) site today and noticed this page: Q7 runner
and now I'm fascinated, watching it go.
Seems to be an automated UI test runner called Q7, and they exercise it by having it build the F4 ide and run it thru a boatload of tests. So the point is "UI test runner", but the other point is "see what F4 can do". Impressive, both ways.
Not affiliated, but wish I was. This is something else.
ivan Wed 18 Jan 2012
Thanks a lot, Kevin!
Q7 is our UI testing tool for Eclipse done right, which includes (but not limited to :)) a headless runner for test execution during continuous integration. And pushing effort to Q7 is the reason why we didn't pay as much attention as we would like to F4 itself during last year.
Currently we have about 250 UI tests for F4, and we want it to be a reference test suite for IDEs, so I think we might officially open-source F4 pretty soon (unofficially we already did it -- there's git repo simply put on http here). Unfortunately, right now F4 pods can be built only in F4 itself, so our continuous integration just packages pods into Eclipse plugins, runs tests and packages products for all platforms.