+1; the response to changing a public API shouldn't be a request to create a unit test to retain the API! Unit tests aren't meant to "save an API"; they're meant to test behavior.
Sanjiva. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Afkham Azeez <afk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Creating a unit test is one thing which we can do, but Axis2 has so > many public methods, and it is not reasonable at this moment to ask > anybody to create unit tests for each of these public methods. I guess > there is a purpose in the widely used practice of deprecating methods. > Imagine if the other projects that we widely use make such ad-hoc API > changes, and when we complain, if they ask us to write a unit test for > their APIs; it is not reasonable. We do not want to make life > complicated for everybody. > > Azeez > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Davanum Srinivas<dava...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Azeez, > > > > Do you mind creating a unit test(s) for the behavior/API(s) you need? > That > > would help keep desired behavior and enforce that what you need will not > be > > modified. > > > > thanks, > > dims > > > > On 08/20/2009 07:45 AM, Afkham Azeez wrote: > >> > >> Yes Dims. However, if everybody continues to merrily change APIs, > >> making public methods private& so on, things are going to become a > >> big mess. Axis2 provides public APIs, and those may be having > >> problems, but still they are public APIs. This is why you have to be > >> very careful when defining APIs; if you get them wrong, you may have > >> to live with it for a long time. > >> > >> Azeez > >> > >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Davanum Srinivas<dava...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Azeez, > >>> > >>> We are still following, commit-then-review right? > >>> > >>> thanks, > >>> dims > >>> > >>> On 08/20/2009 07:33 AM, Afkham Azeez wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Hi Andreas, > >>>> The changes you've done to the APIs as per > >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-4465 badly breaks some of > >>>> the projects that depend on Axis2. Please revert this, and please > >>>> engage the community before making such drastic changes in the future. > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > Thanks > Afkham Azeez > > Blog: http://afkham.org > Developer Portal: http://www.wso2.org > WSAS Blog: http://wso2wsas.blogspot.com > Company: http://wso2.com > GPG Fingerprint: 643F C2AF EB78 F886 40C9 B2A2 4AE2 C887 665E 0760 > -- Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder, Director & Chief Scientist; Lanka Software Foundation; http://www.opensource.lk/ Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://www.wso2.com/ Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/ Blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/
