yuk! what is this test trying to achieve?
Tim
Alexei Zakharov wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> While investigating one of the failed tests from the beans module
> (PersistenceDelegateTest#*) I have discovered that the test is doing a
> reverse engineering in fact. It passes some worm-like object to public
> API method and then analyzes the calling stacktrace of each of its
> methods by means of
>
> StackTraceElement[] eles = (new Throwable()).getStackTrace();
> if (eles[i].getClassName().equals(…) &&
> eles[i].getMethodName().equals(..)) {…}
>
> In that way, to enable this test we need to rewrite our code and make
> it identical to RI's (at least in respect to the stack trace). Such
> testing technique may be applied to many parts of Java API, not only
> beans. Of course I can imagine some user application doing this but
> such people should probably know what they do.
>
> Personally I don't like such methods of testing and vote for
> refactoring of these tests. Other opinions? Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
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Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM Java technology centre, UK.
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