[jboss-as7-dev] Revisited: Integration TestSuite Organization and Maintenance

[Jason T. Greene]

On 8/16/11 2:46 AM, Andrew Lee Rubinger wrote:
> On 08/16/2011 12:54 AM, Jason T. Greene wrote:
>> The approach might catch a missing dependency, but it will not catch an
>> unnecessary dependency. It seems that only human review can get the most
>> accurate results. Alternatively, it might be more correct to actually
>> write real API verification tests, that does something like look for an
>> expected list of packages, and erroring when an unexpected package is
>> found (or a missing one).
>
> I think about this all the time. Unfortunately, you can't catch a leaked
> API unless you test for all possible leaks. If anyone's got a fine idea
> how to deal with this, I'm all ears.

Sure you can, any package that shows up that is not on the list is a leak.

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Jason T. Greene
JBoss AS Lead / EAP Platform Architect
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