Mars M3 Test Plan

Testing day: Tuesday 2014-10-28
Test Build: latest available I-build
Components: Platform Search, Platform Text, JDT Text and JDT UI
Testers: Markus

Setup

Builds

4.5 build: everybody

Platforms

Windows 7: Markus
Linux-GTK: -
Mac OS X 10.10: Markus

Goal

test new functionality added since 4.4
verify that severe bugs are correctly fixed

Test New Functionality

Note: First test the items where your name is listed first. Then test the other items.

Quick Assists to convert method references to lambda and vice versa (Markus - Questions: Noopur)

verify that quick assists show up where they make sense
verify that quick assists are correct (no compile errors; no change of behavior)
verify that inverse operation usually produces original code
test all forms of method references (JLS8 15.13)

Quick Assist to infer lambda parameter types (Markus - Questions: Noopur)

verify that the inserted types are syntactically and semantically correct

UI Responsiveness Monitoring (Markus - Questions: Markus)

test the new Platform UI feature in real-life scenarios

4.5 Bug Verification (All)

Before starting to verify a bug add a comment indicating that you are about to verify it.

Sanity Check The Build (All)

Sanity check the build by using it for development (either on "real" code or your pet project).