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

[Manik Surtani]

On 15 Sep 2009, at 11:31, Galder Zamarreno wrote:

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> On 09/15/2009 12:14 PM, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
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>> On 09/15/2009 09:26 AM, Mircea Markus wrote:
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>>> On Sep 14, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Galder Zamarreno wrote:
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>>>> 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...
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> Voila! Take your test method and add a java.lang.reflect.Method
> parameter to it. testng will populate it with the test method  
> information:
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>    public void test000(java.lang.reflect.Method method) {
>       System.out.println(method.getName());
>    }
>
> That will give you the test name without doing any fancy stuff :)

Nice!
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