Building the Export Formatter

After you finish modifying the example export formatter, build the customized export formatter plug-in. To use the new export formatter, you must copy it to Manual Tester.

The example project that you copied from Manual Tester to Eclipse includes an Ant build script that builds the export formatter.

To build the export formatter and copy it to Manual Tester:

  1. In the Eclipse Package Explorer view, expand the Example Exporter project.
  2. Right click the plugin.xml file and click PDE Tools > Create Ant Build File to create the Ant script (build.xml) that is used in the build process.
  3. Right click the build.xml file and click Run > Ant Build. Eclipse builds the .jar file, example_export.jar.
  4. Using Microsoft Windows Explorer, create a plug-in folder in the Manual Tester plugins directory. If Manual Tester is installed in the default location, the plugins directory is C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational\SDP\6.0\ManualTest\eclipse\plugins\.
  5. Copy the plugin.xml file and the example_export.jar file from the Example Exporter project to the plug-in folder you created.
Now the new export formatter is ready to run. See Importing Word and Excel Test Documents for more information on running an export formatter.

Parent topic: Creating an Export Formatter

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