�ystein Gr�vlen wrote:
"DJD" == Daniel John Debrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DJD> I think the test suite has to have a known environment to allow it to
DJD> run successfully on widely different machines. Examples of this known
DJD> environment are the expected locale, character set encoding for the
DJD> scripts etc. Ideally the test harness should set this environment
itself.
Asa long as you have a test harness that is based on evaluating the
output to file from each test program, I think you are right.
However, I think it should be possible to build a locale independent
test harness in JUnit by instead evaluating the return values from API
calls (e.g., message ids instead of message strings).
Error messages are important. We should test them.
Remember that the messages are generated by substituting argument values
into strings fetched from the messages files. There may be bugs in the
message generation system, more often Derby programmers make mistakes in
messages and arguments. So if a test just looks at the message IDs and
not at the message strings we will miss some bugs.
Jack Klebanoff
