Installing the Eclipse Feature
The Eclipse feature monitors and records testing within the
Eclipse IDE
to contribute to the DevCreek community.
Testing activity can currently be collected from Java and Ruby within Eclipse:
- Java testing with JUnit, as supplied with the Eclipse IDE
- Ruby testing with Test::Unit, if the third-party RDT - Ruby Development Tools
0.81 feature has been installed.
Requires: Eclipse 3.1 or higher, Java 1.4.2 or higher.
In the future we would like to expand DevCreek's coverage
to tests in other languages within Eclipse
and eventually to other IDEs.
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Get a DevCreek account
If you don't already have a DevCreek account, please register here,
and wait for the details.
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Join a DevCreek project
Testing activity data needs to be associated with a DevCreek project. Either:
- Create you own project from the account page.
- Join an existing project, ask the Admin of the project to send you an invite.
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Add the update site to Eclipse
- Choose the Eclipse "Help->Software Updates->Find and Install..." menu item
- Select "Search for new features to install", and click Next
- Click "New Remote Site..."
 - Set Name: DevCreek Updates
- Set URL: https://devcreek.com/updates
- Click OK
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Install the feature
- Ensure the "DevCreek Updates" site is checked
- Click Finish to start the install
 - Check the DevCreek feature and optionally DevCreek Analytics
- The DevCreek Agent features collect metrics from other Eclipse plug-ins, check any that match your existing configuration
- Click Next
- Accept the DevCreek license agreements, and click Next
- Leave the Install Location with the default value, and click Finish
- Authentication details for the update site might be requested.
- Enter your DevCreek account user name and password, and click OK.
- Feature Verification, click Install All
- Click Restart Eclipse
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Configure account details
- After restarting, the DevCreek Preferences page should open
 - Set your DevCreek account user name and password
- Click OK
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Choose project
- A second dialog should appear, requesting a DevCreek Project, click OK
- The DevCreek View should open
 - Click the "Refresh Choices" button, and wait a second or two, to update the list of projects
- Choose your project from the Project combo
- Feel free to change the default principal. This is tagged against each observed testing event to help you track you own testing behaviour. This is free form, and could be set to your machine name, your own name, or initials of your programming pair, and so on.
- You should see the "tests served" at the top of the view has a number associated with it
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Run tests!
- Run an existing JUnit class
 - Once completed, the test run ticker should add an "tick" for the test case, green for success, red for a failure.
- You can confirm the data has been received by the server from the My DevCreek page.
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If you want to learn more about the Eclipse feature, then please continue with the introduction.
