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Subject: RE:  "Test Skeleton Generator" follow up
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 08:49:17 -0500
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From: "Chris Greenlee" <CGreenlee@demandsolutions.com>
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Actually, this seems like a very useful utility.  Not being a committer,
I have no say whether it goes into the product, but I wouldn't be upset
to see it added to the unit testing tasks within ant.

Chris Greenlee

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magesh Umasankar [mailto:umagesh@rediffmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:12 PM
> To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: "Test Skeleton Generator" follow up
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> I had submitted a task about a week back=20
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/ant-dev%40jakarta.apache.org/msg0
> 6330.html)
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> Since nothing was mentioned about it, I was wondering if any=20
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> I use this task in the following way:
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> The build compiles the Java source files first. This=20
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> This task is followed compilation of the Test cases, which is=20
> followed by execution of the test cases.
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> Naturally, if a developer has checked in some code without=20
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> Opinions?
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> Thanks,
> Magesh
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