Automating unit tests (junit) for Eclipse Plugin development

Question

I am developing Eclipse plugins, and I need to be able to automate the building and execution of the test suite for each plugin. (Using Junit)

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Answer 1

As an alternative to Ant, I've had good experience in using the brand new Maven+Tycho with Hudson. Tycho provides complete support for Osgi and Eclipse development in Maven. It's currently under heavy development, but most of the features I've needed worked. It needs only very little configuration from your side, because it can parse MANIFEST.MF files.

If you have some experience with Maven it's not very hard to start working with it. Hudson is a bit more problematic because of missing Maven 3 support. (the development version of Maven 3 is used by Tycho)

Links for start:

• uncomplete user docs