I've used the MIT Continuous testing plugin in the past, but it has long since passed out of date and is no longer compatible with anything approaching a modern release of Eclipse.
Does anyone have a good replacement? Free, naturally, is preferred.
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There is a list in this Ben Rady article at Object Mentor: Continuous Testing Explained. Unfortunately the only Eclipse tool appears to be CT-Eclipse which is not currently maintained either.
There is also Fireworks for IntelliJ and Infinitest which is not IDE specific but also has some IntelliJ integration.
Bradley Harris
2008-09-16 21:21:47
CT-Eclipse is not (from what I can tell) in active development now. Fireworks is not for Eclipse. Inifinitest works _okay_, but crashes on large projects and does not integrate with Eclipse. Thanks for the info, though.
awied
2008-09-16 21:34:00
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My experience is that continuous testing within the IDE can become unwieldy and distracting, so I prefer to use something like CruiseControl to do this kind of testing. One tool I have found very useful is EclEmma, which gives you a very fast coverage turnaround for your units, helping you to decide when you have finished testing a particular area of the code.
Oisin Hurley
2008-09-17 22:34:21
Although pointing to traditional Continuous Integration tools is certainly nice, continuous feedback in the IDE is still more frequent by at least 1 order of magnitude (I'd even say 2), so I don't feel this is really answering the question.
Thomas Dufour
2010-09-03 23:13:47
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I've had good experience with infinitest on a small and simple project. I've not run into any issues with it and find it fast and helpful.
Sebastian
2008-10-02 07:39:13
Just an update. Infinitest 5.x is still running great and running fine in current versions of Eclipse and Intellij
Sebastian
2010-06-11 15:24:40
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I found that Infinitest now has an eclipse plugin that seems to work pretty well.
awied
2009-09-25 20:36:49
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Infinitest decides what tests it wants to run. Often it runs the wrong ones. Green bar sometimes good, sometimes meaningless.
Mo Mo
2010-06-07 00:03:15
I've suffered more from meaningless red bars from infinitest actually. Also, as I tend to save every couple of lines at most, infinitest ended up always running (and not often displaying results). As a result I've dropped it even though I'm convinced by continuous testing in principle...
Thomas Dufour
2010-09-03 23:11:45