Isn't an AssertionError *always* a bug? Éamonn
On 23 November 2011 12:04, Brandon Passanisi <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm currently looking at a bug report: > http://monaco.sfbay.sun.com/detail.jsf?cr=5066854 which describes an issue > where a simple program was run with the option -esa to enable system > assertions. The bug author describes that, in the provided sample code, an > AssertionError occurs when the spec says a MissingFormatArgumentException > should be thrown. When running the sample program without the -esa option, a > MissingFormatArgumentException is thrown. It seems to me that it shouldn't > be unexpected to see an AssertionError when -esa is used, instead of the > MissingFormatArgumentException. In fact, this behavior appears to not be > limited to this particular test case, and can possibly occur with other APIs > if an AssertionError is seen before an expected exception. I was hoping to > see some sort of explanation in the evaluation or comments section of the bug > report, but the bug report was only updated with references about how the bug > was filed too late for a release. Can someone clarify if this behavior with > -esa is actually a bug? > > Thanks.
