Maven and functional testing

[smozely]

Hi all,

Just with the 6.9 announcement that there is going to be more focus on maven and Rcp apps http://wiki.netbeans.org/PlatformPoolOfRcpTopics. I am a little concered at the state of functional testing.

At the moment we are using Ant builds and Jelly/Jemmy which is working very well from a testing standpoint... but would rather be using Maven for all the goodness that maven provides with the dependency management. And being able to include modules from a maven repo to build up ann application is pretty cool.

But what I don't see on the road map is any mention of functional testing ... how are people doing functional testing when use maven? Are they doing it at all? what we have found is that testing in the UI layer functional tests are much more valuable for us than unit tests.

I know Jemmy/Jelly in maven has been talked about before without much of a result http://forums.netbeans.org/viewtopic.php?t=9990

Just keen to hear what other opinions on this matter are