[jbosstools-dev] Testing the CA

Hi Max. Den asked me to answer on Automated Test Case creation possibility for content assistant. Amoung the JUnit test cases we have the one that tests OpenOn's region types recognition. This tests contains the informatin for the specified file region types and calls the OpenOn "detector" on each character position in that file to ensure that the region types are properly detected. So, for the CA we can create something like this. Because of algorithm of CA invokation is closed deep inside ContentAssistant and CompletionProposalPopup classes we have to write the same algorithm to get the CA Processor for the source viewer and text position specified and then aquire the processor for proposals. There are some difficulties because of UI staff (there are too many private and package local/internal classes in CA which need to, but cannot be accessed from outside (from test case code)) but I think it's possible to get the proposals for some test file. The big question is how the test case can ensure that the proposal list returned is the right proposals? There are too many variations for the proposal set (depending on the JBoss and 3rd-party plugins installed and project configuration it is possible to get a different set of proposals). Best Regards, Victor Rubezhny