Development setup

Setting up a development environment for WindowTester

Please note: This guide is still referring to the SVN repository on code.google.com. An updated guide for working with this Git repository will follow soon.

1. Eclipse

• Download Eclipse from http://www.eclipse.org
• Eclipse 3.8.x is recommended

2. Eclipse delta pack

• Download the Eclipse delta pack corresponding to the Eclipse version you want to use
• Extract the delta pack to ECLIPSE_HOME/delta-pack/eclipse/plugins (ECLIPSE_HOME is the root dir of your Eclipse installation)

3. SVN support

• Install a SVN client plugin
  • Subclipse (http://subclipse.tigris.org/) or
  • Subversive (eg. from the Juno update site http://download.eclipse.org/releases/juno)

4. WindowTester

• You can use the provided team project set to import all necessary plugins
  • http://code.google.com/p/windowtester/downloads/detail?name=WindowTester_dev_withoutExamples_v1.0.psf
  • File -> Import... -> Team -> Team Project Set
• Or checkout the !WindowTester plugins manually from http://windowtester.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
• Not all plugins are needed for developing !WindowTester, eg. the following plugins are either unfinished, deprecated or abandoned projects:
  • com.windowtester.pro_buildjavadoc
  • com.windowtester.runtime.junit4
  • com.windowtester.runtime.junit4_test
  • com.windowtester.runtime.legacy
  • com.windowtester.server.core
  • com.windowtester.server.core_feature
  • com.windowtester.server.ui
  • com.windowtester.server.ui_feature
  • com.windowtester.swt.runtime.legacy
• The following plugins contain only example projects:
  • com.windowtester.example.contactmanager.rcp
  • com.windowtester.example.contactmanager.rcp_test_feature
  • com.windowtester.example.contactmanager.rcp_test
  • com.windowtester.example.contactmanager.swing
  • com.windowtester.example.contactmanager.swing_test
• Depending on your platform you can remove or close the other platform specific plugins
  • eg. if you want to develop on a Linux 32 bit platform, you can close (or remove) the following plugins:
    • com.windowtester.swt.macosx
    • com.windowtester.swt.macosx.cocoa
    • com.windowtester.swt.runtime.linux.motif.x86
    • com.windowtester.swt.runtime.macosx.carbon.x86
    • com.windowtester.swt.runtime.macosx.cocoa
    • com.windowtester.swt.runtime.macosx.cocoa.x86
    • com.windowtester.swt.runtime.macosx.cocoa.x86_64
    • com.windowtester.swt.runtime.win32.win32.x86
    • com.windowtester.swt.runtime.win32.win32.x86_64

5. Compile errors

• Missing API baseline
  • set to Warning instead of Error in preferences:
    • Window -> Preferences -> Plug-in Development -> API Baselines -> Missing API baseline
• Apply patch for compile errors
  • http://code.google.com/p/windowtester/downloads/detail?name=FixedCompileErrors_v1.0.patch