Re: Need help designing some JUnit tests
Rhino wrote:
Am I right in assuming that it is reasonable to bypass the sequence
testing in the case of my sorted list of Locales, given that I am using a
TreeMap which already guarantees the order? I assume you are just
including these tests to cover situations where I am generating a sorted
list out of thin air (without the benefit of the TreeXXX Collection
classes) so that I can be confident my code worked correctly?
I would test it.
Suppose at some future time a programmer changes the Map implementation
e.g. from TreeMap to HashMap. That might be done in an attempt to
improve performance, or because of a future decision to standardize on
HashMap unless there is a specific reason to use a different
implementation. The future programmer could be yourself after you have
had time to forget why you used TreeMap.
If you test for alphabetical order, the method's unit test will fail
with HashMap. If not, you could get a clean unit test, but have all the
fun of debugging system level problems.
Patricia
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