[DrJava] Testing Advice

[Peter C. <cen...@ri...>]

Hey folks,

You may have seen me turning up some bugs and inconsistencies in DrJava 
lately, and you may be wondering how I found them.  Answer: When I'm 
using DrJava, I often encounter situations where I think, "Gee, no 
reasonable person would ever decide to do X right now."  And then I do 
it.  Basically, if there's no reason an average user would want to do 
it, it's likely that the developers never thought to test it.  So 
please, do your best to break things.  Especially the things you are 
currently working on.  Resize the window really small and see what it 
does.  Try to cause an exception while the main window is minimized.  
Click on lots of things while DrJava is in the middle of some slow, 
annoying operation.  Turn your keyboard mapping to Japanese.  This is 
how bugs are found.

I'll get off the soapbox now.  Thanks for listening.

--
Peter