Rhapsody plugin testing

Question

I am developing a plugin for IBM Rational Rhapsody using this Java API.

This plugin is registered in the help file and is working fine as long as I can tell. In order to have more confidence about its stability I created a JUnit test suite that I can run through my IDE.

However that's just a mocking solution and I was wondering if there is any way to create an integration test suite that starts from Rhapsody.

What I would really like could be automate the execution of my plugin on a list of test models assessing its good behaviour

I can't find any reference to this on the internet so also other ideas are welcome.

Answer 1

That's how I implemented the integration test suite:

What I did was to create a Rhapsody model containing N components. Then in Java using JUnit I implemented a base test case that given a model name it does start up a new Rhapsody application and opens it.

Once Rhapsody is open I can use Java APIs to select the correct component simulating a mouse click on its name and then I can run my plugin functions exactly like it was fired for a right click event on the element.

This approach is the only way I found to test my plugin programmatically so that I can use to detect regression. However this is not the perfect solution since it's quite slow (for example 10secs just to startup Rhapsody).