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

[Galder Zamarreno]

On 09/15/2009 12:14 PM, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
>
>
> On 09/15/2009 09:26 AM, Mircea Markus wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 14, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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...
>> That's a good idea but doesn't apply when there's inheritance between
>> test classes (and ISPN uses inheritance).
>> Eg.
>>
>>     abstract class Base {
>>       public void testMethod(){}
>> }
>>
>> @Test
>> public class A extends Base{}
>>
>> @Test
>> public class B extends Base{}
>>
>> Now test method will be run twice, and the stack trace won't let you
>> make the difference between it being run in the context of class A or
>> of class B.
>> But yep, in all other scenarios this is a very useful mechanism.
>
> True, run some tests and this could fail easily. Now, in JUnit, TestCase
> class that tests extended had a getName() method that could be called to
> retrieve the test's name.
>
> I think you can do this with TestNG using the TestRunner:
> http://testng.org/javadocs/org/testng/TestRunner.html#getName%28%29

Actually, that would give you the test name itself. I'm looking at other 
possibilities.

>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Galder Zamarreño
>>>>>> Sr. Software Engineer
>>>>>> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
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Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Engineer
Infinispan, JBoss Cache