"Fixer-upper" utility to help convert ij canon-based tests to JUnit.
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Key: DERBY-2151
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2151
Project: Derby
Issue Type: Test
Components: Test, Tools
Affects Versions: 10.3.0.0
Reporter: A B
Priority: Minor
As part of my work to get the XML tests running in JUnit (DERBY-1758) I had to
convert the old ij test lang/xml_general.sql into a JUnit equivalent. After
hand-converting about twenty or so lines of ij "master" output to the
corresponding JUnit commands, I became bored with the melancholy of such a
task. So I hastily threw together a small utility to help automate as much of
the process as possible.
To be perfectly frank, the utility is a shameful piece of code. It's
poorly-written, non-intuitive, overly complex and not at all well thought-out.
It's also completely UN-commented. I wish I could follow-up with a half-hearted
claim that "at least it works", but I'm not even sure *that*'s always true...
My first (and still lingering) inclination is to just bury the utility and
never look at it again. However, I have to admit that, while the code is a
nightmare to understand, it did a) prompt me to add some general-purpose JUnit
utility methods that can be useful (DERBY-1976), and b) save me a lot of time
by providing a rough translation of the ij test to JUnit. Then instead of
piddling away at line-by-conversions of the test I was able to spend my time
re-organizing the JUnit version to make it adhere to the JUnit suggestions on
the second page of:
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-12-2000/jw-1221-junit.html
So the utility *did* save me time. And for that reason I've decided to choke
down my embarassment and post it to a Jira issue for other developers who may
find it useful (or perhaps entertaining as an example of bad programming)...
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