>>>>> "Nascif" == Nascif Abousalh-Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  Nascif> Hi all,

  Nascif> I recently learned about this Eclipse plugin:
  Nascif> http://pag.csail.mit.edu/continuoustesting/ The idea of this
  Nascif> plugin is to use idle cycles to run your unit testcases - as
  Nascif> soon as you finish a change, your unit testcases would be
  Nascif> executed (perhaps just the ones for that class) to give you
  Nascif> instant feedback on any bug you might have introduced.

  Nascif> I was thinking on how to implement that for
  Nascif> Emacs/JDEE. Perhaps an extension or hook for flymake could
  Nascif> be used, together with a call to jde-eval - once we know the
  Nascif> class is syntatically correct, we trigger the execution of
  Nascif> the testcases. Or maybe a hook into semantics, since it also
  Nascif> seems to do work in the background now.

  Nascif> What do you think? Any ideas?

It's a nice idea. I think that the thing that its going to be hard is
interrupting the process when the idle finishes. You can do this
straightforwardly when using lisp, but it might be harder if you have
to communicate with an external process. 

Also, for my purposes, all of my tests come from an ant build
file, so if it didn't work with this, it's not going to be that
useful. 

Cheers

Phil

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