Currently, integration-tests run against a prepared package (of Developer Studio). In order to more easily run those tests locally or as part of the development process, it would be nice to also have them running directly against source code of the component.

Tycho provide a mechanism to provision the application under test according to existing definition: https://eclipse.org/tycho/sitedocs/tycho-surefire/tycho-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html#testRuntime , or maybe even by simply making Developer Studio part of the test target-platform and define it as the application/produce under test: https://eclipse.org/tycho/sitedocs/tycho-surefire/tycho-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html#product