2006/11/29, Alexei Zakharov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi,> * Empty setUp/teardown methods +1 > * Singleton suite methods - There are some tests that contain a static > "suite" method that creates a TestSuite and adds one test (the test > class it's declared in). Are there any practical uses for these > methods? TestSuites are for grouping together tests to treat them as > one unit. Since these suites are just one test, it doesn't seem to > provide much value. Well, suite() method is very useful when you are trying to find the reason of the individual test method failure. It is simpler to debug (add debug logs for example) to a single code path rather than to run through 60 tests methods before you reach the desired break point. If you have the suite() method all you need is just to add the following line: suite.addTest(new MyTest("testReallyHotIssue"));
Just FYI: junit4 provides cmd-line support for running single test method. So the equivalent to the above is: $ java -cp junit-4.0.jar junit.textui.TestRunner -m MyTest.testReallyHotIssue
So I would suggest to leave suites as it is for now. > * main method launching text runner I'm neutral here. We (probably) can always run java junit.textui.TestRunner MyClass instead of java MyClass. Thanks, 2006/11/29, Nathan Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > There is a large amount of inconsistency across the tests and I'd like > to lobby for cleaning them up as much as possible. I'm of the opinion > that test code should be clean, simple and transparent. Here are some > of the more noticeable items that I'd like to cleanup. > > * Empty setUp/teardown methods - There are a number of tests that > override setUp and/or teardown methods, but are either empty or just > call the super implementation. > > * Singleton suite methods - There are some tests that contain a static > "suite" method that creates a TestSuite and adds one test (the test > class it's declared in). Are there any practical uses for these > methods? TestSuites are for grouping together tests to treat them as > one unit. Since these suites are just one test, it doesn't seem to > provide much value. > > * main method launching text runner - There are some tests that > contain "main" methods which run the enclosing test via a JUnit text > runner. Most IDEs have built-in support for JUnit and can launch any > test arbitrarily and Ant can do the same thing. Does anyone launch > tests via these methods? > > My proposal would be to clean up these inconsistencies by eliminating > them, but what does everyone else think? -- Alexei Zakharov, Intel Enterprise Solutions Software Division
