[jbosstools-dev] Window Tester as alternative to SWTBot ?

Hi all, During EclipseCon Europe, I chatted with a guy who's a pure technology-agnostic guy (not a contributor, not a guru, not an evangelist, just a user who gives his user story in an objective way). He used to use SWTBot to write tests, but he started using Google WindowTester Pro [1] instead since it got released under EPL by Google [2]. He told me that WindowTester Pro has a bot API quite similar to SWTBot, also compatible with JUnit and Tycho; and the most interesting point is that Window Tester contains a recorder which allows to record tests pretty easily. This could help us to write tests, but also be used by end-users to provide their failing scenarios as WindowTester scenarios. The recorder simply logs all SWT events and tries to turn meaningful sequences of Events to user-grained UI operations (such as click). I was reported that 90% of code written by the recorder is good for industrial usage, the 10 remaining % requires some refactoring and Java coding; and that using WindowTester Pro takes half the time as recording+writing SWTBot tests to provide exactly the same thing, with the same level of (re)usability and maintainability. The only "darker" point I know against this tool is that it's not (yet?) part of the Eclipse Foundation projects, it's still a Google one. But I think that with some insistence, this project can get into the Foundation with all the advantages that comes with it (mainly openness). This definitely seems to be a project we should evaluate for JBoss Tools. I opened this ticket to track this suggestion: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12953 so anyone who's interested can go there and provide some additional feedback/ideas on whether WindowTester Pro is good for JBoss Tools. Cheers, [1] http://code.google.com/p/windowtester/ https://developers.google.com/java-dev-tools/wintester/html/ [2] http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2012/03/announcing-windowtester-open... -- Mickael Istria Eclipse developer at JBoss, by Red Hat <http://www.jboss.org/tools> My blog <http://mickaelistria.wordpress.com> - My Tweets <http://twitter.com/mickaelistria>