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Welcome to the IntelliJ IDEA UI test library wiki! Here you'll find several pieces of information and advices on how to setup, use and contribute to this library.

Purpose of this project

This project allows you to create automated UI tests for your IntelliJ IDEA plugin.

Any Suggestions or Questions?

Please submit an issue to this project.

Contributing

Feel free to contribute to this project! See the contribution guide for more details.

Quick setup

The setup of this library is easy - just extend the build.gradle file as described in the following steps:

STEP #1: Adding repositories

repositories {
    maven {
        url 'https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots'
    }
    maven {
        url 'https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public'
    }
    maven {
        url 'https://packages.jetbrains.team/maven/p/ij/intellij-dependencies'
    }
}

STEP #2: Adding dependencies

dependencies {
    compile 'com.redhat.devtools.intellij:intellij-common-ui-test-library:0.0.3'
}

STEP #3: Adding source sets

sourceSets {
    integrationTest {
        java.srcDir file('src/it/java')
        resources.srcDir file('src/it/resources')
        compileClasspath += sourceSets.main.output + configurations.testRuntime
        runtimeClasspath += output + compileClasspath
    }
}

STEP #4: Adding tasks

task integrationTest(type: Test) {
    useJUnitPlatform()
    description = 'Runs the integration tests.'
    group = 'verification'
    testClassesDirs = sourceSets.integrationTest.output.classesDirs
    classpath = sourceSets.integrationTest.runtimeClasspath
    outputs.upToDateWhen { false }
    mustRunAfter test
}

runIdeForUiTests {
    systemProperty "robot-server.port", System.getProperty("robot-server.port")
}

Start and quit IntelliJ IDEA

Use the following code to start IntelliJ before running the first UI test. The runIde() method not only starts the IDE for UI tests, it also returns reference to the Remote-Robot instance which will be useful later to access UI elements such as buttons, inputs etc.

private static RemoteRobot robot;

@BeforeAll
public static void runIdeForUiTests() {
    robot = UITestRunner.runIde(UITestRunner.IdeaVersion.V_2020_3, 8580);
}

After executing all the UI tests you close the IDE by running the following command:

@AfterAll
public static void closeIde() {
    UITestRunner.closeIde();
}

What next? Implement your first UI test!

After you manage to setup this library to your project and successfully start and quit IntelliJ IDEA, there is no mor setup needed. Just start writing your UI tests!