[jbosstools-dev] Stopping the JBIDEXYZTest madness

Max Rydahl Andersen max.andersen at redhat.com
Mon Aug 3 10:16:45 EDT 2009


Hi,

I would like to make a shout out to everybody to please stop naming test 
methods and classes after jira issues.
If a test is related to an jira put it as part of the javadoc or something.

Trying to figure out what a test is actually supposed to do should not 
require looking up a jira.
Having the jira id there is nice and I encourage you to have it in the 
docs so if really needed

Name it based on what the test is about, i.e. 
testCreateJSFProjectWithNonExistentFolder instead of testJBIDE1234
or if you *really* want it there call it 
testCreateJSFProjectWithNonExistentFolder_JBIDE1234

I know I create a test once based on a jira id and I have regretted it 
ever since because now its almost impossible
to understand what a test is about without having to go read the jira.

Plus, a jira seldomly can be tested with only one test method - should 
be more than one to avoid gigantic nonmaintainable tests

Thanks!: )
/max


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