Test View menu item just shows blank view

[westbury]

Description

The plugin-ext package contibutes a Test menu item in the View menu. This does nothing except show a completely blank view.

On investigating one can get something to show in this view. First one has to install a plugin that contributes a view to the 'test' group (or call registerView in plugin-view-registry). Then one has to right-click on a small area somewhere in the top left of the blank view to see the registered view in a context menu.

I was wondering what the intentions are. Users should not see the menu item if there are no 'test' views registered. Alternatively the 'test' view package could be moved out of plugin-ext. Also the view needs fixing. Should we do what VS Code does and show every project under every 'test' view implemention? Or should we do something more like Theia's SCM view where the user selects a project and tests are shown that are found in that project (possibly more than one part if project has different types of tests)?

Reproduction Steps

This plugin adds a view to 'test': https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-python.python

[akosyakov]

It should appear only when some extension explicitly contributes a view to it and show it. Otherwise it is a bug. One has to check maybe it is python extensions is too eager.