Anton Luht wrote: >> 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.
Yes, for *compatibility* we need some external data like the serialization data. > 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. Hopefully you don't mean that literally. If you don't trust anything created by the Harmony VM then you can not implement a meaningful test. > Only paranoids survive :) But a little trust will get us further faster ;-) Regards, Tim -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
