Indeed, unless you are extremely paranoid that all the other API implementations wrong, but are conspiring to make your test pass then you should assume that everything else is working ok and you are testing some specific piece of functionality.
Why should we have gold files then? Let's imagine we test deserialization. According to your proposal - we suppose that serialization works fine then. Let's serialize something in a file or an array, deserialize and compare - if non-transient fields are equal, it's OK. I suggest to trust only resources created outside Harmony VM - for example, created by Java executed in RI, application on any other language but Java or taken from SVN. Only paranoids survive :) -- Regards, Anton Luht, Intel Middleware Products Division --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
