Paulex Yang wrote: > I still confuse what we want to test, the logic or the data? I think > most (if not all) i18n related methods actually have same single > executable with multiple resource bundles, i.e., the single executable > should be locale-independent, the different return value is due to the > resource data difference. I think at least for now, we should pay our > attention to logic of single executable, and leave the data verification > to the i18n libraries' author, say, ICU, they have much more knowledge > and authority (at least than me) on this area.
Agreed > If we can get agree on the above, so the i18n related test cases > organization are easier to judge: the logic is locale-independent, Ah, that is why I was trying to determine. If the logic is locale-independent then picking a locale to test with is ok; but it was unclear that was the case when changing locale caused assertion failures. > so ideally the tests should be locale-independent, but we have some > exceptional cases, say, the en_UK in MessageFormat case, Do you mean that in this case the logic /is/ locale dependent? I'm confused again <g>. > so we cannot make our tests rely on the default locale, then we just > specify one locale(en_US) to the tests, and supplement some > exceptional case when we find some. i.e., I don't think we need > ABC_en_US_Test, or so. Right, I don't think we need to have test_en_US blah, unless perhaps we pick one as the base for locale-dependent tests, otherwise we just run all tests in the machine default locale. Regards, Tim -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
