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Bryan Pendleton commented on DERBY-2151:
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Committed skipBlankLines.diff to subversion as revision 573432.
> "Fixer-upper" utility to help convert ij canon-based tests to JUnit.
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> Key: DERBY-2151
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2151
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Test
> Components: Test, Tools
> Affects Versions: 10.3.1.4
> Reporter: A B
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 10.3.1.4
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> Attachments: derby-2151-andrew-v1.diff, derby-2151-andrew-v2.diff,
> ijToJUnit.java, skipBlankLines.diff
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> As part of my work to get the XML tests running in JUnit (DERBY-1758) I had
> to convert the old ij test lang/xml_general.sql into a JUnit equivalent.
> After hand-converting about twenty or so lines of ij "master" output to the
> corresponding JUnit commands, I became bored with the melancholy of such a
> task. So I hastily threw together a small utility to help automate as much
> of the process as possible.
> To be perfectly frank, the utility is a shameful piece of code. It's
> poorly-written, non-intuitive, overly complex and not at all well
> thought-out. It's also completely UN-commented. I wish I could follow-up
> with a half-hearted claim that "at least it works", but I'm not even sure
> *that*'s always true...
> My first (and still lingering) inclination is to just bury the utility and
> never look at it again. However, I have to admit that, while the code is a
> nightmare to understand, it did a) prompt me to add some general-purpose
> JUnit utility methods that can be useful (DERBY-1976), and b) save me a lot
> of time by providing a rough translation of the ij test to JUnit. Then
> instead of piddling away at line-by-conversions of the test I was able to
> spend my time re-organizing the JUnit version to make it adhere to the JUnit
> suggestions on the second page of:
> http://www.javaworld.com/jw-12-2000/jw-1221-junit.html
> So the utility *did* save me time. And for that reason I've decided to choke
> down my embarassment and post it to a Jira issue for other developers who may
> find it useful (or perhaps entertaining as an example of bad programming)...
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