[jbosstools-dev] Running Maven tests against a pre-existing RCP application

[Mickael Istria]

Hi all,

With Tycho 0.19.0, we could fix the long-standing issue JBIDE-13869. 
This will allow you to run your test with Maven against an RCP 
application which is available in your filesystem.
You can do it by simply running for example:
   $ cd tests/my.test.bundle
   $ mvn clean verify -Dtest.profileName=epp.package.jee 
-Dtest.installPath=/home/me/eclipse-4.4.M2
If test.installPath is not set, you get the default surefire behaviour 
which is to generate a simple minimal installation to run the tests in 
target/work.
More info about the profileName can be found in 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Testing_with_Surefire#p2Installed_on_provisioned_RCP_application 
. This works on any RCP application that relies on p2 (in case you want 
to test JBoss Tools inside Websphere Studio ;).

We've configured it so that by default, it is JBDS-friendly and set the 
jbds profileName. So to test on JBDS, you can simply use:
   $ mvn clean verify 
-Dtest.installPath=/home/me/jbdevstudio-8.0.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT/studio

Except a few exception, other surefire parameters, such as the very cool 
debugPort parameter, can be used together with this mechanism.

Enjoy!
-- 
Mickael Istria
Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools>
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