[DrJava] Re: [ drjava-Feature Requests-623272 ] allow lifting interactions into a test

[Eric A. <eri...@ma...>]

Whoa! Great job, guys. I can't wait to try out this new functionality  
for writing new unit tests...

-- Eric


On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 05:40 PM, SourceForge.net wrote:

> Feature Requests item #623272, was opened at 2002-10-14 15:30
> Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nrhorowitz
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> Category: Interactions
> Group: Medium (< 1 pair-month)
> Status: Open
> Priority: 7
> Submitted By: Eric E. Allen (eallen)
> Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
> Summary: allow lifting interactions into a test
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> Initial Comment:
> Story:
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> The user enters a series of commands to a fresh interactions
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> window. The definitions pane is open to a file containing a public
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> class extending TestCase. He then pushes a "make into test"
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> button in the interactions pane, and the interactions history is
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> lifted into a new JUnit test method in the TestCase class in the
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> definitions pane. All import and package statements are
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> reconciled with those at the top of the source file. All
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> incompatibilities between DynamicJava and regular Java syntax
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> are detected and reported (or fixed) before continuing. A dialog
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> box appears asking the user to name the new test method.
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> The user continues entering commands into interactions without
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> resetting. He then hits the "make into test" button again. All
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> interactions since the last time he hit the button are lifted into a
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> new test method, again in the open TestCase class.
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> If the currently open document does not contain a public class
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> extending TestCase, a new document is created with a new
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> extension of TestCase. The user is prompted to name the new
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> class, and the new test method is inserted into it.
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> It make be advisable to break this story up into a series of smaller
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> ones.
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> -- Eric
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>> Comment By: Neal Horowitz (nrhorowitz)
> Date: 2003-05-30 15:40
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> What could be considered a first step in this is now
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> committed.  There is now an action (available through the
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> context menu in the interactions pane or through the tools
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> menu) that will take the current input in the interactions
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> pane and write it to the definitions pane at the current
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> caret position.
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