Time for action: showing views

To show other views, the same mechanism is done in the UI tests as a user would do, by navigating the Window | Show View | Other… menu.

1. Create a new method, testTimeZoneView, with an @Test annotation.

2. From the bot, open the Window | Show View | Other… dialog.

3. Get the shell with the title Show View and activate it.

4. Expand the Timekeeping node and select the Time Zone View node (the view created in Chapter 2, Creating Views with SWT).

5. Click on the OK button to have the view shown.

6. Use the bot.viewByTitle() method to acquire a reference to the view.

7. Assert that the view is not null.

8. The code looks like:

   @Test
   public void testTimeZoneView() {
     bot.menu("Window").menu("Show View").menu("Other...").click();
     SWTBotShell shell = bot.shell("Show View");
     shell.activate();
     bot.tree().expandNode("Timekeeping").select("Time Zone View");
     bot.button("OK").click();
     SWTBotView timeZoneView = bot.viewByTitle("Time Zone View");
     assertNotNull(timeZoneView);
   }

9. Run the tests...