Re: state of an object in setUp() of junit TestCase
On 31-10-2010 15:16, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Lew wrote:
markspace wrote:
I've used instance fields but initialized them each time before a test.
I don't know if this is good practice or not but there it is.
Partial code:
public class BasicIrcParserTest
{
private Writer writer;
private MockCommandList commandList;
private ChatScreen screen;
@Before
public void setUp()
{
writer = new StringWriter();
commandList = new MockCommandList();
screen = new ChatScreen()
...
}
...
I aver that that is good practice.
Agreed.
For some reason, it has become the normal style to do test setup in an
@Before method rather than a constructor or initialisers, so that's
where people reading tests will look for it. It's preferable to put it
where people will look for it.
Is it documented in the JUnit docs that it will construct a new
object for every test?
Arne
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