Continuous Testing is an Eclipse plug-in which uses excess cycles on a developer`s workstation to continuously run regression tests in the background, providing rapid feedback about test failures as source code is edited.
Continuous Testing reduces the time and energy required to keep code well-tested, and prevents regression errors from persisting uncaught for long periods of time.
Continuous Testing builds on the automated developer support in Eclipse to make it even easier to keep your Java code well-tested, if you have a JUnit test suite. With continuous testing enabled, as you edit your code, Eclipse runs your tests quietly in the background, and notifies you if any of them fail or cause errors.
Continuous Testing is most useful in situations where you would already have a test suite while you are changing code: when performing maintenance, refactoring, or using test-first development.
You can find detailed installation information HERE.
Here are some key features of "Continuous Testing":
· Test Filtering and Prioritization: By default, JUnit test suites always run in the same order. With the plug-in, you can specify how to order the tests and which tests should be run based on previous test results and which files have changed. New filters and prioritizers can also be easily created and added to Eclipse.
· Multiple Result Viewing: JUnit now stores the last result of every test run launch. You can select which result to view from a list in the JUnit view.
Requirements:
· Eclipse 3.1 or later
