Hi, Again I'd like to share my thoughts. I've been looking for a while for a means to unit-test the layout code. There are two difficulties I think: - re-creating the necessary LayoutManager structure. While it would be great to be able to create only the necessary LMs (e.g., TableLM and its children), it isn't necessarily possible because of property inheritance or contexts for computing percentages. There might be tricky side-effects difficult to track. - unit-testing private methods; that would be unfortunate to break encapsulation just to be able to test the outcome of some methods.
Thus I was thinking about using logs for testing purposes. We would have a custom logger that instead of printing out the message would compare it against an expected string. Granted, that's really not elegant and also not very robust (String comparisons). But that would allow to perform unit testing quite easily, without breaking design, and for cheap. Does that make you feel any sudden urge to shout? ;-) Any thoughts? Thanks, Vincent
