I'd like to set up my projects in Eclipse to run FlexUnit tests everytime I save my work.
I found an example with JUnit here : http://misko.hevery.com/2009/05/07/configure-your-ide-to-run-your-tests-automatically/
How would you do it? Is it possible to run FlexUnit tests without Flash Player?
Yes, you could create a setup much like the one Misko describes using FlexUnit4. The key is creating an ANT build script that compiles your test runner and then invokes the FlexUnit ANT task on the resulting SWF.
Once you have the ANT build script setup you can jump right into step 4, as outlined in the article.
Getting the ANT build script setup correctly can be a little tricky if you're not familiar with ANT. I found the continuous integration (CI) sample project provided by the FlexUnit4 team to be a great reference. As of this writing, it's available here:
http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flexunit/branches/4.x/FlexUnit4SampleCIProject/
Try using Flex Builder 4 beta, it has unit testing integration built in.
Are you using the FlexUnit plugin for Eclipse?
I don't know it, but it should execute FlexUnit tests.
If you want to execute something after you saved, you could use the Save Actions in Eclipse. They are inserted in org.eclipse.jdt.ui.cleanUps (according to a mailing list post).
Oh, I recently found this blog entry: FlexUnit + Ant. It seems like it covers your problem!
Good luck with that!
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I'm new to ROBOT framework and must create library keyword using java and utilize the JAR files in RIDE editor. I have followed the below steps. But still have confusions in where to start up. Please help me to achieve this.
Steps:
1) Installed Python, wxPython, pybot, RIDE, selenium2library successfully and I'm able to work with RIDE using predefined keywords.
2) For creating own java library, Installed Eclipse Mars, Java, ROBOT IDE manually using the link https://github.com/NitorCreations/RobotFramework-EclipseIDE/wiki/Installation
The question here is,
Anything i'm missing to install?
How to proceed further with Robot Framework coding?
Note: I'm reading many materials in parts to proceed things. But that is confusing me what are the steps to be followed. Is there any single material that i can get having the sequences of steps that need to be followed for my requirements?
The below links I referred with,
https://github.com/NitorCreations/RobotFramework-EclipseIDE/wiki/Usage
Maven error "Failure to transfer..."
Create a Maven project in Eclipse complains "Could not resolve archetype"
http://robotframework.org/robotframework/latest/RobotFrameworkUserGuide.html#using-set-test-suite-global-variable-keywords
Let's start with the basics. RIDE is an editor for Robot Script files. Robot Script files are executed by the Robot Framework robot application. It is important to understand the difference between these two applications. One creates files and the other uses them.
Assuming for a moment here that you have some custom functionality in a Jar file that you would like to make available inside the Robot Script files test cases. If this is indeed the case then your focus should be on create Robot Test Libraries. In the documentation there are numerous java examples given for basing your own library on.
This means that you do not need Maven, unless you want to, to create your library. Also Eclipse IDE is not needed nor is RIDE. The library you create can be used by Robot Framework even when it's run from the command line. Feel free to use them for what they are good at: writing Robot Scripts efficiently and running Robot through menu options instead of command line windows.
When you are familiar with Eclipse and comfortable with it's features, then I can also recommend using the Eclipse Application RED which is a mature Eclipse add on for creating, running and debugging Robot scripts.
There are two ways of implementing a Java routine in Robot Framework and it depends a bit on how you run Robot Framework: Python or Jython. Running Python means that you need to run the Java in a separate JVM container and connect to it. The simplest way is via Command Line interaction. This may cause some security concerns. The second approach is to use the Remote Library approach. A good example of this is the Robot Framework Sikuli Library. An added bonus is that you can run Robot and your Java application on two separate machines/servers.
The Jython way has been discussed on StackOverflow before and I gladly refer to it. Please bear in mind that although the examples refer to RIDE, the Library org.company.Keywordlibrary works in all IDE's, provided robot framework is run using Jython.
In the Jython documentation it clearly explains how to setup an Eclipse based IDE with Jython. Do keep in mind that it's recommended to use the same interpreter in development and production. I.e. if you create your scripts in Jython, do run them in 'production' also using Jython. Otherwise you open yourself up to interpreter differences where functionality does not work or behaves differently then expected.
An alternative approach with Jython is the all-in-one Robot Framework Maven JAR plugin. Adding a custom Java Library in this setup is not too difficult. A nice short tutorial can be found on the blog of Valerio Bruno. If this is your preferred route for development, then you may want to read the RED howto on integrating the Robot Framework Maven jar.
Working on your custom functionality is likely going to be a independent project in Eclipse, but can be linked to an Robot project via the Class Path settings in red.xml if you use RED or the CLASS_PATH environment variable.
Done! I have installed RED and required add on using following below steps. It worked successfully with predefined keywords. Now I'm gonna create user defined keywords/libraries using the same editor. I don't know where to start up. Will it work creating just a java project? Should I need to include any additional libraries?
Steps followed to proceed with RED:
1. RED Version Conclusion: https://github.com/nokia/RED/blob/master/release.md
2. RED Installation Instructions: https://github.com/nokia/RED/blob/master/installation.md
3. ROBOT Framework prerequisites using RED: https://github.com/nokia/RED/blob/master/red_help/first_steps/download_install.html.md
4. To verify Installations in Eclipse: Help -> Installation Details to check if RED is visible on installed features list
5. Create Project and Tests using RED in Eclipse: https://github.com/nokia/RED/blob/master/red_help/first_steps/create_run.html.md
6. RED Steps: https://github.com/nokia/RED/blob/master/First_steps.md
7. Quick STart: https://github.com/nokia/RED/blob/master/red_help/user_guide/quick_start.html.md
Reading the roboletric documentation I see it uses maven and it expects to see a java based project and not a scala one.
However I am using intellij + scala + android as described in this blog post.
How could you execute robolectric tests on a android-scala project like the one above?
As of now, there seems to be two main options:
RoboTest - Integrates RoboElectric with ScalaTest test library
RoboSpecs - Integrates RoboElectric with Specs2 test library
Both of them seems easy to use. And both of then do not support parallel execution of tests in the same JVM. RoboTest seems to be able to run tests in parallel by forking processes for each test.
I've been trying to setup a working method for unit testing flex libraries using Flex Builder.
I have tried setting up a standard flex lib project and using Ant to compile and run the units tests. But this means that when something does go wrong and I want to use the flex builder debugger I cannot do so.
So my next plan is to setup the library as a normal as3/flax/air app as I can use the concept of a main class to run the unit tests. I can then compile the actual library code using Ant.
I could also setup a separate companion project who's sole task is to run units tests on the lib. But this is a little awkward as each library now requires two projects to manage.
This all seems a little messy to me.
How do other people develop flex libraries and use unit tests to test/develop/debug the code?
What version do you use? Unit testing with FlexBuilder ist not very nice (understatement!).
If you have the opportunity, try FlashBuilder, it works much nicer and the new FlexUnit4 tests do integrate much better with CI than the old ones.
Is anyone using TeamCity for building their Flex apps? We're using .Net for our main site code and backend flex data calls and we use flex for our application. I have a working Ant build script, but I can't get it to run with the TeamCity Ant Runner. I'm curious if anyone has gotten this working and if they have, could I potentitially see a sample of your build script?
For some reason the build script won't pick up the FLEX_HOME environment variables for the Flex Ant Tasks.
I cannot see why it shouldn´t work. Just declare FLEX_HOME in the top of your Ant script, and point to the sdk on the TeamCity machine, like:
<property name="FLEX_HOME" value="c:/adobe/flex/sdk/3.3"/>
On a previous project I worked on we had exactly the same situation as you and it can work. I can't remember doing anything special to get this going although we may have had to manually set some environment variables in the TeamCity config. Check out the TeamCity docs for how to set these and how to they are used
You might also try using the basic Command line runner to see if that works. When troubleshooting environment variable issues in TeamCity I have found it useful to have part of the build process run a DOS set command (env for Linux) and then look in the build logs to see what the actual environment is.
Is there an easy way to build projects created in FlexBuilder via the command line?
I'm beginning to work on adding a couple Flex components to the project I have at work. Currently the rest of the project (some java, some C++) is built via an ant script. I'd really like to be able to integrate the builds for the Flex components I'm working on into that ant script, but I'm not sure how to build the Flex projects from the command line.
Is there a way to invoke the flex compiler from the command line such that it uses the flex builder's project as its configuration? Or is there a way to modify FlexBuilder's compilation so that I could write a build script for the project and then have it use that (so that I'd only have one way to build and have both ant and FB use that, instead of separate build processes)?
While a flex ant task would be preferable it's not really necessary, as I can create custom tasks from command line apps easily enough.
EDIT:
One additional thing that I should probably mention. While I have FlexBuilder installed some of the people who run that ant script do not. They would just have the normal Flex SDK.
You can use the -dump-config option in FB to dump the config.xml that FB is using to compile your project, and then use that (using the -load-config option) with your command-line build.
I know in regular Eclipse you can build from an ant file, and I'm pretty sure that you can do the same with FB.
Although the doc kind of stinks for the flex ant tasks, they work ok.
[EDIT]- I replied in the comments, but I wanted to flesh out my reply.
Herms is having a problem using -dump-config and -load-config and it kind of points out why the flex ant tasks are better. (I didn't want to be the guy who says "why do you want to do X?", so I just answered the asked question).
Even though their doc is subpar (imo), they're better suited for the task of building
your projects.
There are a couple of gotchas using the flex ant tasks, but for the most part, it's not brain surgery (and really the gotchas are more because the doc sucks).
When I started working on the automated build for our project, I found this site:
http://www.nabble.com/FlexCoders-f16212.html
to be invaluable.
Flex 3 comes with Ant tasks for building Flex applications from the command line. The documentation is available here. In addition, there is a great open source build framework called Antennae which can help a lot in organizing and building Flex applications from the command line (it is Ant-based).
I wrote a blog post on exactly how to do this (set Flex up with Ant) and have a sample build file. while I wrote this for Linux, the Ant part is platform agnostic. (see step 4):
http://blog.apterainc.com/software/setting-up-a-flex-development-enviroment-in-gnulinux/
If you need any help, leave comments and I can troubleshoot any problems you are having.
EDIT: Documentation for Flex's ant tasks are a bit sparse, but here are the official documentation from Adobe, is was enough to get me on my way: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=anttasks_1.html
I started out with Antennae and was pretty disappointed when I realized it does not use the Flex Ant Tasks. To get what I needed I would've needed to hack the command line parameters it passes to mxmlc... and antennae doesn't support modules among other things that are easier to accomplish with the Flex Ant Tasks. anyway, what I did come up with is a mash up of the good aspects I found in antennae and the good aspects of the build files from this blog post:
http://jvalentino.blogspot.com/2010/03/flex-ant-build-optimized-modules_24.html