Ariadna will have that.
As for stubs generation though, I'd very much prefer that the methods do
throw new java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException("TODO");
(perhaps with a customizable message to make everyone happy)
rather than return dummy values (0, null ....)
Edo
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jacques Morel
> Sent: 24 January 2002 16:39
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Eap-features] Test-First Design - Need a forward
> code completion or code generation.
>
>
> I am sure all of you are familiar with eXtreme Programming
> practice Test-First Design. This practice promotes the use of
> unit tests as a way to flesh out the interface of a class and
> make that class testable by design and very user friendly. In
> other words you write one test case then make it compile by
> coding a stub version of the class under test then you make
> the test pass by fleshing the content of the stubbed
> method(s). The unfortunate side effect of this is your unit
> test doesn't compile until you have gone to the next step and
> created the stubs. The current code completion doesn't help
> and is not usable.
> I would call this backward code completion where the
> completion is done against something that is already done.
>
> To help Test-First design you need another kind of
> completion. I will call it "forward completion". While
> writing my test, as I introduce a use of a new interface of
> the class under test I can trigger the generation of a
> corresponding compilable stub. The method generation would
> use the type of the lhs of the call to determine the return
> type and would use the call arguments type to determine the
> function parameter types. If the function has a return type a
> dummy value would be returned (0 or null). I am not sure we
> need the generation of data members but it could follow the
> same process.
>
> No other IDE has support for this Test-First or Top-Down
> design approach. This could rally a lot of XP people under IntelliJ!
>
> Jacques Morel
> Sr. Application Architect
> nextjet
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> (214) 292-3273
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