OSGi Testing

Question

Currently, I am working on a new version control system as part of a final year project at University. The idea is to make it highly adaptable and pluggable.

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Answer 1

Here are some tools not mentioned yet:

• I'm using Tycho, which is a tool for using Maven to build Eclipse plugins. If you create tests inside their own plug-ins, or plug-in fragments, Tycho can run each set of tests inside its own OSGi instance, with all its required dependencies. Intro and further info. This is working quite well for me.

• jUnit4OSGI looks straightforward. You make subclasses of OSGiTestCase, and you get methods like getServiceReference(), etc.

• Pluginbuilder, a headless build system for OSGi bundles / Eclipse plug-ins, has a test-running framework called Autotestsuite. It runs the tests in the context of the OSGi environment, after the build step. But, it doesn't seem to have been maintained for several years. I think that many Eclipse projects are migrating from Pluginbuilder to Tycho.

• Another option is to start an instance of an OSGi container within your unit test, which you run directly, as explained here.

• Here's someone who's written a small bundle test collector, which searches for JUnit (3) tests and runs them.