Re: [ jEdit-devel ] unit testing with jedit?

[Jeffrey H. <jc...@gm...>]

Actually, you can.  You can access private methods and fields through
reflection.  See "Subverting Java Access Protection for Unit Testing"
here:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/11/12/reflection.html



On 8/2/06, Matthieu Casanova <cho...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi, the problem will also to test the private methods. I think there is no
> way to do that isn't it ?
>
> Matthieu
>
> 2006/8/2, Jeffrey Hoyt <jc...@gm... >:
> >
> I've done a lot of unit testing, but for back end stuff (web-based
> software) and the non-GUI portions of a Swing application (examples
> here:
> http://autohostclient.cvs.sourceforge.net/autohostclient/autohostclient/src/test/stars/ahc/).
>  There are extensions to do GUI testing, but I've never evaluated
> them.
>
> Basically with junit, you always test methods directly, but you have
> to initialize all the stuff your method exercises first.  With
> something like jEdit, which was never written to support unit testing,
> it may be very hard to initialize everything in a way that allows you
> to test, especially if you are trying to hunt down GUI bugs.  That may
> be my unfamiliarity with core code talking, though.
>
> Jeff
>
>  On 8/2/06, Alan Ezust <ala...@gm...> wrote:
> > I'm playing around with junit 4.1 now. It's much nicer than version 3,
> > and takes advantages of the Java 1.5 annotations, which is quite nice.
> > So now I need to write a unit-test to reproduce a problem I am having
> > with Lucene. I'm wondering how to initialize the unit test. Should it
> > just start up the whole jEdit application? Or is there a way I can
> > test the routines directly.
> >
> > Since the classes I want to test depend on jedit, and do things like
> > jEdit.getProperty(), I need the property system to be loaded.
> >
> > Has anyone else written unit tests for pieces of jedit? How do you
> > initialize your tests?
> >
> >
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