> I've never tried to learn a command-line invocation of a test
> case for a single test method, I've always just used the IDE
> to run individual methods....
Right, I've been doing bunches of Solr dev which for me only works
from the command line... I'm open to suggestions though!
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Erick Erickson
<erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can use Junit4 whenever you want right now. Just derive from
> LuceneTestCaseJ4 rather than LuceneTestCase. And annotate
> each test with @Test and you should be fine.
> Junit4 does allow you to mix-n-match 3/4 tests
> *on a whole class basis*. That is, all of the tests in a class must
> be either 3-style deriving from TestCase and named appropriately)
> or 4-style (annotated, with whatever Junit4 features you'd like).
> The consensus seems to be that converting old tests to
> Junit4 just to get them all using Junit4 isn't a good use
> of time, and at least introduces the possibility that it would
> mess things up. Upgrading old tests to Junit4 to improve
> them, especially to speed them up (@BeforeClass and @
> AfterClass can help) *is* a good use of time.
> I might convert an old-style test case if I was
> working in it, but that's probably a personal preference.
> I've never tried to learn a command-line invocation of a test
> case for a single test method, I've always just used the IDE
> to run individual methods....
> Erick
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Jason Rutherglen
> <jason.rutherg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Lets go to JUnit 4 if possible...
>>
>> Does it provide method level testing? (i.e. one doesn't need to
>> execute every test method just to check the results of one method)
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Shai Erera <ser...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Ok this seems a discussion related to JUnit 4, so I'll port what I've
>> > said
>> > about it from the other thread (doing the code cleanup):
>> >
>> > {quote}
>> > Erik, I'm totally with you on JUnit 4. I think the @Test annotation is
>> > really not a big deal (it's actually very easy to migrate all the
>> > current
>> > tests to JUnit 4 with the added import using some script. Even manually
>> > it
>> > shouldn't be such a big deal.
>> >
>> > @Ignore is a perfect other advantage of JUnit4. I've found some tests
>> > which
>> > were prefixed with _, i.e. _testXYZ just to disable them. Nobody knows
>> > about
>> > them until he looks at the code (and pays attention). @Ignore would have
>> > been better.
>> >
>> > And there are lots of other advantages, like the @Before and @After (not
>> > only class). Another problem I've found in the tests is that not all
>> > extended LuceneTestCase, and usually their setUp and tearDown
>> > implementations were wrong - not calling super first/last. When I moved
>> > them
>> > to extend LuceneTestCase they broke (I fixed them, don't worry).
>> > However,
>> > that could never happen if the super's methods were tagged w/
>> > @Before/After,
>> > because JUnit would take care running them before/after their
>> > sub-classes'
>> > @Before/After. So that's another win for JUnit4.
>> >
>> > And of course the @Before/AfterClass are really great !
>> > {quote}
>> >
>> > I think the @Before/After annotations can be a real win for our tests.
>> >
>> > My two cents,
>> > Shai
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Erick Erickson
>> > <erickerick...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Well, "Things got busy (tm)". Uwe's point if valid; unless there's
>> >> demonstrable gain, moving things to Junit4 "just for fun" is wasted
>> >> motion,
>> >> indeed dangerous. I was focusing on LocalizedTestCase to understand the
>> >> place of runBare etc. in the scheme of things since when I created
>> >> LuceneTestCaseJ4 that was something I wanted to figure out to make it a
>> >> replacement for LuceneTestCase.
>> >>
>> >> I can't point to a compelling reason to shake up the code, the only
>> >> improvement it would have is having a demonstration of using the Junit4
>> >> @RunWith annotation for future reference.
>> >>
>> >> So, I've no compelling reason to push that patch forward. If y'all
>> >> think
>> >> it's worth it I'll be happy to crank that patch back up again, it'll
>> >> take a
>> >> few days though. It does affect a several files, and if the main value
>> >> here
>> >> is an exemplar of the @RunWith annotation, perhaps there's a better
>> >> place to
>> >> put that in.
>> >>
>> >> Erick
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> LocalizedTestCase called runBare in LuceneTestCase which reported the
>> >>>> seed value if an exception was thrown. I couldn't find a good way to
>> >>>> access
>> >>>> runBare or analogs in Junit4, but the interceptor pattern worked as
>> >>>> well.
>> >>>> The interceptor is called by the Junit framework on test events, so
>> >>>> there
>> >>>> aren't references to it in the Lucene test code. There are other
>> >>>> places that
>> >>>> call runBare, so I assumed that if anyone wanted to use Junit4 with
>> >>>> those
>> >>>> classes it would be a good thing to allow.
>> >>>
>> >>> I didn't forget about your patch Erick, in my opinion there is nothing
>> >>> wrong with it. I hope its not discouraging you, the problem is a few
>> >>> of us
>> >>> have spent countless hours trying to debug this hard-to-reproduce Thai
>> >>> test
>> >>> failure problem.
>> >>>
>> >>> It failed in the existing tests, too, with Junit 3 on hudson (one
>> >>> time!).
>> >>> At this point, i start to wonder if it could be related to stuff like
>> >>> this:
>> >>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6683975
>> >>>
>> >>> I don't think we should let this stop progress with the tests, if you
>> >>> think we should move LocalizedTestCase to junit 4 lets do it.
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Robert Muir
>> >>> rcm...@gmail.com
>> >>
>> >
>> >
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