> + It's way better than nothing (probably)
> + It's simple
> - it breaks on many many irrelevant changes
> 
> Can we run diff from ant to get a report?

I was also thinking about it, but it breaks if you clean and then build.

> What I have been thinking of for a testsuite base involves
> 
> an xml comparator (insensitive to formatting, just sensitive to
content).
> I wrote one of these for a different testing purpose, I think it would
be
> easy to use here.
> 
> a class examiner that compares the properties of 2 classes to make
sure
> they are the same.
> 
> These would be somewhat more complex than running diff on text files,
> however I think it might be worthwhile to avoid sensitivity to
formatting
> changes.

The best solution. Sure the examiner is written once but the problem is
we have a huge codebase and it'll take a huge amount of time to write
such test suites.

Ara.



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