Test Dynamic Context-Sensitive Help

Dynamic context-sensitive help in Eclipse involves complex interactions between several components, so testing it requires a properly configured runtime platform, with both user interface (UI) components and user assistance (UA) components installed.

Like any other functionality, dynamic context-sensitive help should be tested to assess its quality.

Note: This document deals with testing the functionality of dynamic context-sensitive help, not the quality (or usefulness) of the help content.

Test Objectives
For projects that use the DTP help-helper, there are two primary objectives in testing dynamic context-sensitive help:
Test Procedures
For each UI control associated with a help context, test procedures should verify the following:
Plug-in Spy
The Plug-in Spy tool (provided in org.eclipse.pde.runtime, since Eclipse 3.4) shows various information about the workbench, including help context IDs associated with the current (in focus) UI control.
Debug Mode
The Eclipse platform debug mode can be useful for testing and troubleshooting dynamic context-sensitive help.