On popular request, I've changed the parent pom to add the org.eclipse.e4.rcp feature as suggested by Snjezana. This should make some tests now more or less magically work better.
This is a temporary fix, so that as soon as we have a TP containing fix for https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=417429 , we'll remove this dependency in surefire to get back to a smaller set of dependencies during tests.

More of the story at https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-16161
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Mickael Istria
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