On Wed, 25 May 2022 17:19:22 GMT, Pavel Rappo <pra...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Yes. Although we could throw NPE even here, I was wanting to throw something >> that indicates the test is dysfunctional, as compared to failing or crashing. > > The rationale that you provided reminds of `new > FileInputStream(java.io.File)` that throws `FileNotFoundException`. Unlike > not finding a file, not finding a particular snippet is an unexpected, > unrecoverable programming error. I cannot imagine a reasonable test that > checks that some snippet is not there. It's a reasonable analogy. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8796
