On 16/11/2011 00:47, Iris Clark wrote:
Hi.
The current practice may be different, but...
The original intent was that every bug would either have a unit/regression test
or a BugTraq keyword explaining why a test was not provided. See step 6 on
this page for the list of valid keywords:
http://openjdk.java.net/guide/changePlanning.html#bug
This is the still the current practice and of course a specific
regression test may be for several bugs (as often it make more sense to
add to an existing test rather than add a new test each time).
In the case of bugs against regression tests I've seen two approaches:
1. Addition of the bugid to the @bug tag
2. Addition of the "noreg-self" keyword to bugtraq
Both technically fulfill the original intent. At one point there were audits
to enforce this.
There are still checks that noreg-self is added to the bug. I don't
think the option of adding the bug number to @bug has been written down
as an option, or at least I don't recall it coming up. I don't think it
matters too much, the main intent is to give future maintainers the list
of interesting bugs in the event of a test failure.
-Alan
