Eclipse RCP Testing Tool 1.5.4 Release Review

Type
Release
State
Successful
End Date of the Review Period

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Release

1.5.4

Description

The primary focus of this release is addressing performance issues and improving runtime diagnostics in case of test failures or AUT startup failures.

Architectural Issues

In this release we published new command guide with up-to-date examples - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=453511. More in-depth extensibility options like custom reporting, custom contexts and custom widget support are postponed until project is migrated to Mars (2.0 release).

Non-Code Aspects

Keeping up-to-date and extending user guide at https://www.eclipse.org/rcptt/documentation/userguide/getstarted/

Usability Details

RCPTT IDE conforms to Eclipse User Interface guidelines.

Communities

Talk been given on EclipseCon Europe 2014: Why UI testing is SO hard

Talks and tutorial are proposed on EclipseCon North America 2015: 

Started and maintaining project blog: https://www.eclipse.org/rcptt/blog/

Maintaining activity on project forum: https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/f/281/, about 19 new topics in November