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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:05:42 -0400
From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <geir@pobox.com>
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Alexei Zakharov wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> While investigating one of the failed tests from the beans module
> (PersistenceDelegateTest#*) I have discovered that the test is doing a
> reverse engineering in fact. It passes some worm-like object to public
> API method and then analyzes the calling stacktrace of each of its
> methods by means of
> 
> StackTraceElement[] eles = (new Throwable()).getStackTrace();
> if (eles[i].getClassName().equals(�) && 
> eles[i].getMethodName().equals(..)) {�}
> 
> In that way, to enable this test we need to rewrite our code and make
> it identical to RI's (at least in respect to the stack trace). Such
> testing technique may be applied to many parts of Java API, not only
> beans. Of course I can imagine some user application doing this but
> such people should probably know what they do.
> 
> Personally I don't like such methods of testing and vote for
> refactoring of these tests. Other opinions? Thoughts?

That's insane.  Does the Spec require a specific call sequence?

geir

> 
> Thanks,
> 

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