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Java EE 5 (formerly J2EE 1.5) Unanimously Passes Public Review Ballot; Promises Ease of Use
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August 10th, 2004 at 4:50 am
Take a look at TestNG: http://beust.com/testng
August 10th, 2004 at 11:28 am
The design assumes you implement Test, and that’s all. However, it provides _convenience_ methods (such as TestCase) that allow you to write Tests with a minimum of fuss.
Yes, it’s not overly defensive: it makes the assumption that the developer is trying to use it, not abuse it.
If you look at the lifecycle of the tests, BTW, you’ll see why the run method is passed back and forth.
August 11th, 2004 at 3:40 am
Take a look at TestNG, http://beust.com/testng
August 11th, 2004 at 4:57 am
“their user stories didn’t foresee it” — that’s it. Kent Beck’s JUnit was written to certain (probably not documented) specifications and assumptions. It actually works well for its intended purposes, though there is a Smalltalk flavor to it that someone who came to Java from other languages would not appreciate.
I expect that TestSuite() overrides countTestCases() appropriately… but the framework is not written to prevent people from abusing it, since that would get in the way of people who need to extend it for legitimate reasons.
I suspect that “TestResults” is following the Smalltalk idiom of a “collecting parameter” (see Kent Beck’s book “Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns”.