NetBeans Developer Test FAQ

Abstract

Starting to writing tests for NetBeans

• First tests
• Unit versus qa-functional tests
• To use Xtest or junit harness?
• Module dependencies for tests
• Debugging tests
• Setup and usage Gotchas (gotcha)

NetBeans Testing Infrastructure

• Commit validation
• Test distribution
• Test Attribs in use - proposal
• Code coverage
• Xtest

Test patterns

• Test Patterns In Java - very useful for testing NetBeans

Test API

Useful test classes in modules

Frequently used patterns

• nbjunit - NbTestCase class
• Initialization of default Lookup
• Layer initialization
• Using FileSystems, Masterfs

Testing NetBeans Projects

• Classpath and queries testing
• Testing things that use FileObjects
• Writing Tests for DataObjects and DataLoaders
• Executing ant scripts in tests

Test Editor

• Code completion provider
• Lexer

Testing new Java infrastructure

• Java Developers Guide - introduction to new java infrastructure
• TODO

Testing J2EE

• TODO

Performance tests

• TODO

UI Tests

• First UI tests
• Jemmy and Jellytools