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Re: unchecked conversion warning.

From	Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: unchecked conversion warning.
Date	2012-06-10 22:08 +0000
Organization	UK Free Software Network
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On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:16:33 -0700, Roedy Green wrote:

> Perhaps docs should be written by the folks who write the test code.
> The get to ask the coders, decide what makes sense. They will than
> answer the questions that need answering and clarify that which is
> guaranteed.
>
Ideally the javadocs would form at least part of the module-level 
documentation and so should be written by the designers, not the coders.
I think there's a case for the module design documentation to be written 
entirely as a javadoc package suite, i.e. they contain the descriptive 
text as class and public method level comments as well as the associated 
declarations. There's also a case for compiling, as a sanity check, them 
before they are given to the coders. 

Further, the design team are the people who should specify the module and 
regression tests and (hopefully) should be writing them too.

IME you really don't want coders writing module tests. The problem is 
that they will tend to write tests for what they coded rather than for 
what the specification asked them to write and they may skimp on corner 
cases and error handling.

-- 
martin@   | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
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unchecked conversion warning. Jens - 2012-05-30 15:32 +0200
  Re: unchecked conversion warning. Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-05-30 13:48 +0000
    Re: unchecked conversion warning. Jens - 2012-05-30 15:52 +0200
  Re: unchecked conversion warning. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-05-30 07:54 -0700
    Re: unchecked conversion warning. Jens - 2012-05-31 22:23 +0200
      Re: unchecked conversion warning. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-05-31 13:40 -0700
      Re: unchecked conversion warning. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-05-31 16:50 -0400
        Re: unchecked conversion warning. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-05-31 17:18 -0700
        Re: unchecked conversion warning. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-01 08:14 +0200
          Re: unchecked conversion warning. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-01 08:48 -0400
            Re: unchecked conversion warning. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-01 07:32 -0700
            Re: unchecked conversion warning. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-10 12:16 -0700
              Re: unchecked conversion warning. Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-06-10 22:08 +0000
                Re: unchecked conversion warning. Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-10 17:09 -0700
                Re: unchecked conversion warning. Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-06-11 01:31 +0000
        Re: unchecked conversion warning. Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-06-01 08:41 -0600
          Re: unchecked conversion warning. Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-06-01 08:44 -0700
            Re: unchecked conversion warning. markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-01 09:08 -0700
            Re: unchecked conversion warning. Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-01 09:31 -0700
            Re: unchecked conversion warning. Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-06-01 11:02 -0600
            Re: unchecked conversion warning. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-01 13:54 -0400
              Re: unchecked conversion warning. Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-06-01 16:44 -0700
                Re: unchecked conversion warning. Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-01 20:24 -0400
                Re: unchecked conversion warning. Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-06-01 19:36 -0700
          Re: natural/native language capabilities (was: unchecked conversion warning.) Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-06-01 11:01 -0600
        Re: unchecked conversion warning. Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-10 12:13 -0700
        Re: unchecked conversion warning. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-06-20 19:28 -0400
  Re: unchecked conversion warning. Broad Liyn <broadliyn@gmail.com> - 2012-06-10 21:52 -0700
    Re: unchecked conversion warning. Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-06-10 23:50 -0700
    Re: unchecked conversion warning. Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-06-11 00:06 -0700
      Re: unchecked conversion warning. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-16 15:17 +0200
        Re: unchecked conversion warning. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-18 12:28 -0700
          Re: unchecked conversion warning. Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-06-19 23:14 +0200
            Re: unchecked conversion warning. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-19 17:15 -0700
      Re: unchecked conversion warning. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-06-20 19:22 -0400
    Re: unchecked conversion warning. Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-06-20 19:20 -0400

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