[Junit-trackers] [ junit-Feature Requests-1630834 ] Accurately naming parameterized tests

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Feature Requests item #1630834, was opened at 2007-01-08 19:21
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Submitted By: Christian Queinnec (queinnec)
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Summary: Accurately naming parameterized tests

Initial Comment:
Hi,

Naming parameterized tests with numbers 1, 2, ..., N,makes difficult
to retrieve the exact test that fails. For instance, for a compiler I 
wrote, I successively evaluate long series of files (all
are evaluated with the same method) and prefer to see the filename
rather than the number of the test. 

Here are the changes: @Parameter now returns a Collection of TestClassParameters: an interface that offers two methods: getParameters() to retrieve the array of values and getName() to name the particular test. 

It looks nice under Eclipse. Hope it may help.

Thanks for your great job.

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Comment By: Anli Shundi (anshnd)
Date: 2009-11-16 18:56

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Please vote at http://github.com/KentBeck/junit/issues/#issue/44

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Comment By: David Saff (dsaff)
Date: 2009-11-16 17:52

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This tracker is being shut down.  Please move this item to
http://github.com/KentBeck/junit/issues

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Comment By: dasblinkenlight (dasblinkenlight)
Date: 2007-08-20 23:18

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A related discussion at
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=365278&aid=1742040&group_id=15278
discusses alternative ways of addressing the same problem.

I think that the Parameterized.java patch breaks backward compatibility,
because parameterized test suites with @Parameters methods returning
collections of Object[] will no longer work (I did not try it out, so there
is a possibility that I missed something when reading the code; I'm sorry
if I did).

At the very least, the patch should address this issue by falling back on
the old implementation when the @Parameters method returns object arrays
not wrapped in TestClassParameters implementations.

However, I still think that a solution based on @TestName annotation would
be cleaner.

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