On 30-12-10 22:34, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
Sim IJskes - QCG wrote:
On 30-12-10 13:16, Peter Firmstone wrote:
I noticed you were experimenting with source version auditing, how did
that go?
I have verification working on class level, against sun jdk 1.5
signatures. The only problem i see is that we cannot edit the
signatures right now. Craigh suggested a tool based on interface
definitions, i should have a look at it as well, but that one requires
us to code up all signatures manually so it seems.
Did you have a look already at animal-sniffer? A run with CDC
signatures could start verification for that platform. The problem is,
i cannot find a CDC signatures file.
I don't really understand the purpose of all this. Even if a method
exists in 1.4, we would still need to test with a 1.4 JVM to be sure the
code works under 1.4.
It's what i would call a compromise. It is a very extensive process this
QA testing. Animal sniffer does what i says. Verifying what methods with
what signature are called outside of river. It is not perfect. No
testing ever is. I'm happy with it. Until someone comes along and builds
us a super duper N*M platform compatibility testing framework. Until
that moment i see the verification as valuable. Not definitive, but
valuable.
Gr. Sim
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