Ivan, Stepan, I personally set +1 for removing main() method. Any script or command line can be trivially modified to launch JUnit tests without main() method: one should just add junit.textui.TestRunner class before a test class name.
$ java -cp junit.jar junit.textui.TestRunner TestClass I'm writing this trivial thing here because during our work on class library test enabling it was FAQ N1 for all C/C++ developers. Note, any JUnit test won't work without junit.jar anyway. If you have junit.jar, you have a standard test runner, which is also quite lightweight. -- Thank you, Alexei On 11/29/06, Ivan Popov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-1 for removing main(). I often run individual tests from command line or using scripts and it's easier to launch them as a usual Java application. Also, this facilitates creating separate bundle with test to attach to a bug report or send to other people, who can just run it from command line or use script with the all required options already specified, instead of setting IDE for this test. Thanks. Ivan On 11/29/06, Nathan Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a large amount of inconsistency across the tests and I'd like > to lobby for cleaning them up as much as possible. I'm of the opinion > that test code should be clean, simple and transparent. Here are some > of the more noticeable items that I'd like to cleanup. > > * Empty setUp/teardown methods - There are a number of tests that > override setUp and/or teardown methods, but are either empty or just > call the super implementation. > > * Singleton suite methods - There are some tests that contain a static > "suite" method that creates a TestSuite and adds one test (the test > class it's declared in). Are there any practical uses for these > methods? TestSuites are for grouping together tests to treat them as > one unit. Since these suites are just one test, it doesn't seem to > provide much value. > > * main method launching text runner - There are some tests that > contain "main" methods which run the enclosing test via a JUnit text > runner. Most IDEs have built-in support for JUnit and can launch any > test arbitrarily and Ant can do the same thing. Does anyone launch > tests via these methods? > > My proposal would be to clean up these inconsistencies by eliminating > them, but what does everyone else think? > > -Nathan >
