Stepan Mishura wrote:
> So you suggest to generate thousands of 'dynamic' tests. Right?
Nope, not if there is no new code paths being exercised by them. I was
just pointing out that even where the thousands of tests do test
different code paths you may choose to generate them dynamically rather
than statically.
Regards,
Tim
> On 6/7/06, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I doubt it.
>>
>> Even if it were, the logic used to generate the tests can often be built
>> into the runtime tests themselves to exercise the APIs thoroughly
>> without creating thousands of 'static' tests.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> Mikhail Loenko wrote:
>> > I've found an issue similar to rmi tests[1]
>> >
>> > There is a method BigDecimal.subtract(BigDecimal,MathContext), its
>> > implementation in math2 consists of 30 lines
>> >
>> > Implementation does not perform any heavy math: I've counted 5
>> > possible execution paths, different branches are calling
>> > BigInteger.multiply,
>> > BigInteger.subtract, new BigDecimal, and couple more methods.
>> >
>> > The test against that method has 2198 generated test cases looking like
>> the
>> > following:
>> >
>> > public void testSubtractMathContextXXXX() {
>> > bigDec= new BigDecimal("...");
>> > BigDecimal bigDec2= new BigDecimal("...");
>> > assertEquals(msgNotSame, new BigDecimal("..."),
>> > bigDec.subtract(bigDec2,new MathContext(...)));
>> > }
>> >
>> > Do we need that many tests for this method?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Mikhail
>> >
>> > [1]
>> >
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