Eclipse RedDeer 2.5.0 Release Review

Type
Release
State
Successful
End Date of the Review Period

Reviews run for a minimum of one week. The outcome of the review is decided on this date. This is the last day to make comments or ask questions about this review.

Project
Release

2.5.0

Description

We plan to improve code coverage, fight technical debt and make tests and CI more robust, also do not forget minor enhancements and features to be included in this release.

  • Moved to tycho 1.3.0
  • AbtractExplorer is relying on having a Tree which is no more the case when there is no project
  • General inspection of unit tests, updated docs
  • Returning collection of requirement matchers is not properly processed when the same requirement class used
  • Requirement matchers returned in collection of the same class are evaluated as in OR relation
  • Reddeer wizard creates a test plug-in with BREE of 1.8 but adds Java 1.5 to classpath
  • list of issues planned for 2.5.0 release
Non-Code Aspects

RedDeer has easy to use API focused on testing apps based on SWT/Eclipse Platform.

RedDeer also contains a few wizards for Eclipse IDE - to assist with creating new RedDeer project and RedDeer test classes.

Conforms To UI/UX Guidelines
Not verified
Communities

User documentation https://github.com/eclipse/reddeer/wiki

Source code https://github.com/eclipse/reddeer

Issue tracker https://github.com/eclipse/reddeer/issues

CI jobs https://ci.eclipse.org/reddeer/

Mailing list reddeer-dev@eclipse.org

Matttermost chat room https://mattermost.eclipse.org/eclipse/channels/reddeer

This release is part of Eclipse IDE 2019-03