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Re: Question re testing constructor

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markspace <-@.> wrote in news:jblc1i$n6u$1@dont-email.me:

> On 12/6/2011 7:14 AM, Novice wrote:
>> Unfortunately, the assertTrue() statement gets flagged by the
>> compiler as being dead code. Am I right in assuming that it is
>> essentially looking at the instantiation of the HexColor class and
>> reasoning that it will inevitably create SOMETHING so that hexColor
>> can't possibly be null, therefore the assertTrue() can't ever be
>> executed? 
> 
> I'm pretty sure, yes.  The "new" operator always has to return an 
> object, or throw an error.  Factory methods are just methods, and can 
> return null, but new *must* return an object if it completes.
> 
Thanks Mark! Pete confirms your understanding in his reply to my question.

> P.S. Don't use assertTrue just to print something.  Just use 
> System.out.println, it works fine, and makes your intent more clear.
> 

No problem. I'd just gotten into the habit of using assertTrue() in my 
tests and didn't think through whether it was actually necessary in this 
case. 



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Novice

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Question re testing constructor Novice <novice@example..com> - 2011-12-06 15:14 +0000
  Re: Question re testing constructor markspace <-@.> - 2011-12-06 07:23 -0800
    Re: Question re testing constructor Novice <novice@example..com> - 2011-12-06 17:17 +0000
    Re: Question re testing constructor Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-06 21:25 +0000
    Re: Question re testing constructor Ian Shef <invalid@avoiding.spam> - 2011-12-07 00:29 +0000
      Re: Question re testing constructor Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-12-06 19:28 -0800
      Re: Question re testing constructor Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-12-06 22:57 -0600
      Re: Question re testing constructor Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-07 07:12 -0800
      Re: Question re testing constructor Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-12-07 07:14 -0800
        Re: Question re testing constructor Ian Shef <invalid@avoiding.spam> - 2011-12-07 15:59 +0000
          Re: Question re testing constructor Ian Shef <invalid@avoiding.spam> - 2011-12-08 19:19 +0000
      Re: Question re testing constructor ilAn <idonot@wantspam.net> - 2011-12-07 20:41 +0200
  Re: Question re testing constructor Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2011-12-06 07:34 -0800
    Re: Question re testing constructor Novice <novice@example..com> - 2011-12-06 17:15 +0000
  Re: Question re testing constructor Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-12-06 09:49 -0800
  Re: Question re testing constructor Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-06 16:40 -0800
  Re: Question re testing constructor Henk van Voorthuijsen <voorth@xs4all.nl> - 2011-12-07 00:33 -0800

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