My SWTBot UI tests recently started failing on GitHub Actions macOS runners. The application under test is an Eclipse-based application, so at first I expected the failure to be caused by some SWTBot timing issue, focus issue, or maybe a regression in my own code. However, the screenshot captured by the failed test showed something […]
UI tests are delicate since when you run them, you must not interact with the computer, or you will disturb the tests, which will likely fail. In Linux, you can use Xvfb, but windows will not have a title, which might break UI tests that rely on that. For example, Eclipse SWTBot tests work best […]
The problem I was having when running SWTBot tests in Travis CI was that I could not use the new container-based infrastructure of Travis, which allows to cache things like the local maven repository. This was not possible since to run SWTBot tests you need a Window Manager (in Linux, you can use metacity), and […]
Revision History 18 April 2014 Modified the SWTBot test so that it can be reused also in a test suite (see the comments to this post). I happened to give a lecture at the University of Florence on Test Driven Development; besides the standard Junit tests I wanted to show the students also some functional […]