Please, just go away.

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Cédric


On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]>wrote:

> 2010/10/27 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Mark Volkmann <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I wonder though if most people still give their test methods names
>>> that begin with "test". I do. One reason is so the test methods stand
>>> out in my IDE within the list of methods in the class. I want some way
>>> to visually distinguish between test methods and utility methods
>>> within the test class.
>>>
>>
>> Yes but this can be easily solved with a tool. Writing an updated Eclipse
>> Outline view to group methods by annotations is a matter of a few hours. Hey
>> I might even go ahead and write it myself.
>>
>> The thing is: most of the methods in my tests classes are test methods, so
>> the need for this is not that high, at least to me.
>>
>> As for naming, yes, old habits die hard and it's easy to just start your
>> method name with "test", but I find myself being more and more creative with
>> this now ("shouldThrowException", "userShouldBePresent", etc...). And I
>> always have the handy `description` attribute if I am in a verbose mood
>> (@Test(description = "Make sure we have exactly one user named Smith in the
>> db"), something that you can't do without annotations.
>>
>
> I'm sorry, but, yes that can be done without annotations:
>
> http://www.scalatest.org/getting_started_with_fun_suite
> http://code.google.com/p/specs/
>
> and before anyone starts screaming "Oh no, not Scala again!"
>



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Cédric

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