Before installing iTest: See the iTest Installation Guide for details on the following tasks that you must perform:
- Do not uninstall earlier versions of iTest manually by deleting folders. Instead, follow the instructions in the guide.
- Update environment variable settings as described on the last page of the installation wizard (the Install Complete page)
- Install GTK 2.8 or higher (required for particular views in iTest)
- The Welcome page and the online help might not appear properly because they must appear in an external browser (that is, not the browser that is built in to iTest). You can work around the problem in either of the following two ways:
- Specify the location of the external web browser in eclipse preferences. (General->Web Browser). The help will now open in an external browser. The Welcome page, however, will have limited functionality.
- Set an environment variable 'MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME' and point it to the home folder where the web browser is installed. This option fixes both the Welcome pages and the help pages. A detailed explanation appears at: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browserlinux
Optional: Enabling the Working Sets menu item
Note: This option applies only if you use Working Sets and if you are updating from iTest 3.3 to iTest 3.4.
* Working Sets is an Eclipse option (Window > Working Sets) that was visible by default in Eclipse 3.3 and is hidden by default in Eclipse 3.4 (iTest 3.4 is based on Eclipse 3.4).
To make the menu visible, follow these steps:
1. In iTest, click Window > Customize Perspective.
2. Select the Commands tab.
3. In the Available command groups list, check the Window Working Set check box and then click OK.
The Window > Working Sets menu item now appears.
To run Eclipse or iTest on Ubuntu 9.10 with Firefox 3.5 only:
1. Set the environment variable GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS to 1 (Note: GDK and not GTK).
This will solve painting issues with iTest and Eclipse and mouse focus issues.
2. If this is the first time you are starting iTest or Eclipse, iTest will display the "Welcome" screen using the Mozilla browser.
With Firefox 3.5, Eclipse will crash at startup, so you must add the following lines to the iTest.ini or Eclipse.ini file:
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib/xulrunner/xulrunner
The path to xulrunner will depend on the flavor of Linux operating system.
Eclipse has not fixed these two issues in Eclipse 3.5. They are thinking of fixing it in 3.5.2.
Be sure to see the Linux section on the 'Known Issues' page of the Release Notes