RE: [Webtest] Eclipse plugin - Eric Pugh - com.canoo.lists.webtest

4 messages in com.canoo.lists.webtestRE: [Webtest] Eclipse plugin

From	Sent On	Attachments
ka...@hallo.ms	26 Nov 2004 06:39
Guido García Bernardo	26 Nov 2004 06:50
Marc Guillemot	26 Nov 2004 07:00
Eric Pugh	26 Nov 2004 08:23

Subject:	RE: [Webtest] Eclipse plugin
From:	Eric Pugh (epu...@opensourceconnections.com)
Date:	11/26/2004 08:23:54 AM
List:	com.canoo.lists.webtest

I think that what you get out of Eclipse is a nice framework to pull in other functionality. Theres no real reason Grand couldn't run in Eclipse. Same for starting the scripts from Eclipse.

A starting place could be just a page on the wiki describing which XML editor to use and how to get it to validate etc. Also maybe how to use teh external tools in Eclipse to start the script as well.

ERic

-----Original Message----- From: webt...@lists.canoo.com [mailto:webt...@lists.canoo.com]On Behalf Of Marc Guillemot Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 4:01 PM To: webt...@lists.canoo.com Subject: Re: [Webtest] Eclipse plugin

Hi Kay,

If someone realizes a useful plugin for Eclipse to use webtest, I will surely be one of the first to use it but I have some doubts concerning the need of such a plugin. Indeed: - a good xml editor can already read the dtd and provide nice completions / syntax check - it should be quite easy to add a build script as an external tool to start running webtests from Eclipse (I don't do that currently because my linux command line is really nice, but perhaps for windows users...)

Honestly I see the need for a real webtest recorder (not a proxy), but not really for an Eclipse plugin. Nevertheless I may be wrong and would in all cases have a look at what you may realize.

Marc.

ka...@hallo.ms wrote:

Hi, I was talking about eclipse with my colleages while drinking

the thing they call coffie in my office and the idea popped up to have a plugin for eclipse that supports you when writing your WebTests.

As most of you might know, eclipse is basically just a framework for writing user interfaces.

It would: - hide the xml related 'noise' when editing the scripts - suggest available steps using the DTD making conformation to WebTest grammar easier. maybe even integrate with the documentation. - use eclipses update mechanism to easily update to a new version of webtest - serve as a webtest runner - Give a more visual overview of the test suite. (i did not come very far with Grand in this respect)

Is there some activity going in this direction already? Do you see the usefulness? Would you be interested in having it? Do you think its a stupid idea? Why?

Kay