Re: the java assert mechanism: is it useful?
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Marcelo Morales wrote:
On Aug 4, 4:56 pm, marlow.and...@googlemail.com wrote:
So do people actually find the java assert mechanism useful?
You can see that people are actually using assertions:
http://docs.jboss.com/seam/2.0.3.CR1/reference/en-US/html/testing.html#d0e20144
That's a rather interesting case - they use java assertions *in their unit
tests*, instead of JUnit's Assert class. There's no sign in that document
of the use of java assertions within the application code.
I always keep assertions turned off, except for coding and testing
time. I guess most people work like that.
That's pretty much what Sun designed assertions for.
My code does not have a lot of assertions. In fact, I only use
assertions when the test is somewhat expensive, otherwise the if (...)
throw new RuntimeException(...) works just allright.
That, on the other hand, is probably the wrong way to think about it. What
kind of conditions are you testing?
tom
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