[infinispan-dev] A tip: Using a random word generator to generate uncommon test data

[Galder Zamarreno]

On 09/12/2009 12:31 AM, Michael Neale wrote:
> A crazier alternative is to grab the testMethod name and use that as
> part of the key/string - you can do it by getting the stack trace and
> a little bit of work (I had a helper method somewhere).
>
> Something like:
> Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()(1).getMethodName() (at the top
> of the test method)-- its probably 1 as 0 would be the getStackTrace
> method itself... I have found it helpful when digging through things
> and I see a value from a certain test...

Maybe you could add this debugging method as a static method to 
TestingUtil class?

Btw, I've updated 
http://www.jboss.org/community/wiki/InfinispanQuickStartGuideforDevelopers 
with these two tips.

>
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Mircea Markus<mircea.markus at jboss.com>  wrote:
>> Another thing that helps is using the thread name. It's true that
>> there are some threads created within jgroups, and these won't match
>> but generally it helps.
>> Before starting a test, a log message is being output - this contains
>> the name of the test that is to be executed. Same after the test is
>> finished. Logs look like:
>> "Starting test..."
>> and
>> "Test Xyz failed"/"Test Xyz skipped"/"Test Xyz succeeded"
>>
>> On Sep 11, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
>>
>>> p.s. I'm currently using
>>> http://watchout4snakes.com/creativitytools/RandomWord/RandomWordPlus.aspx
>>>   as
>>> random word generator.
>>>
>>> On 09/11/2009 12:12 PM, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
>>>> Guys,
>>>>
>>>> Looking at the Infinispan tests, I've seen plenty same keys/values
>>>> repeated in loads of tests, i.e. k1, k2, v1, v2....etc, so sometimes,
>>>> when you're debugging a specific tests, particularly when running the
>>>> whole testsuite, it's hard to pint point the data related to your
>>>> test
>>>> since same key/values are used by several tests.
>>>>
>>>> So, to try to help with finding the data related to my tests, I'm
>>>> trying
>>>> to use random word generator to generate uncommon or obscure words
>>>> that
>>>> I can use in the tests. Doing this allows me to quickly find my
>>>> data in
>>>> the logs, i.e. "key-isoprene"
>>>>
>>>> I don't know whether other people are interesting in using a similar
>>>> method but at least for me, it helps.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>
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>>> Galder Zamarreño
>>> Sr. Software Engineer
>>> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
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Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Engineer
Infinispan, JBoss Cache