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Eclipse Plug-in Development with TDD

I want to add a view to a perspective without having access to the source code of the perspective. Is this possible?

Is there a good tutorial for plug-in development using TDD?

[edit] I think I have a good starting point with TDDing in plugin development Automating unit tests (junit) for Eclipse Plugin development

[edit 02/17/09] I was able to download the source for the plug-in. I'm just probably going to fork it.

Solution

  • Testing GUIs is a PAIN! And the pain grows exponentially with the complexity of the gui design. Your best bet is to keep the business logic separate from the GUI as much as possible with the MVC pattern and when testing the gui, hook the GUI up to a "mock" application.

    See Object Mentor's paper, the Humble Dialog Box