Peter - This is a request for help running some tests. As you know, I
don't yet have a viable test environment.
I have reached some hypotheses about what is going on with various
suspicious-looking sequence number based runAfter tests. It is possible
that testing of a modified version might eliminate one or more of my
hypotheses. Unfortunately, confirming them is a matter of analysis,
unless we can track down an original implementer to answer some questions.
For example, there are some places where I believe the sequence number
check is harmless because the tasks were added to the TaskManager in
ascending sequence number order. The TaskManager javadoc does not make
it entirely clear that the runAfter test is only shown tasks that were
added before "this", so some programmers may have added a sequence
number check unnecessarily. I would like to insert an assertion, or
logging, or some other reporting mechanism that will tell me if I'm wrong.
If you can help with running the tests, please let me know what form you
would like the changes, and the recommended mechanism for getting the
reports.
Thanks,
Patricia
On 7/24/2010 6:50 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
My notes so far on TaskManager uses are at
http://www.patriciashanahan.com/apache/TaskManager_uses.docx or
http://www.patriciashanahan.com/apache/TaskManager_uses.pdf (same
content, different formats).
If you have any insights that should be added please e-mail them to me.
Thanks,
Patricia
