Recently I asked about how other developers do manual testing for JavaFX
dev builds and PRs. Based on these answers, I thought that this process
could be optimized so that manual testing becomes less tedious.
Over the past few days I worked on jfx-runner
<https://github.com/xpipe-io/jfx-runner>, a gradle project that aims to
eliminate all the tedious parts. It essentially allows you to run any
jfx build together with any kind of application automatically. It also
supports remote sources via git and URLs, so you don't even have to
clone anything yourself. It gives you a full integration for your IDE
and debugger for all jfx sources.
If you are interested, give it a try for a few minutes. It is pretty
simple to use and comes with a lot of sample configurations. It uses
some of Andy's test repository for the samples.
If you have any bug reports or feature requests, let me know. I am
currently aware of a jfx build issue with the javafx-swt.jar, but that
seems to be related to a general jfx bug. If you hit this issue, just
run it again and it will work.
https://github.com/xpipe-io/jfx-runner
