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Re: Calling deprecated methods

From Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> (Eric Sosman)
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Calling deprecated methods
Date 2017-12-12 17:57 +1200
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On 12/12/2017 5:41 PM, Kiwi User wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:33:06 -0800, Eric Douglas wrote:
>
>> I currently work for a small business, so not a lot of time to waste
>> writing tests that can guarantee every enhancement won't break any
>> existing code much less comment blocks, when we have a dozen big
>> enhancement requests and 2 developers.
>>
> If a class is largely getters and setters and its other methods for
> linear things, then you're right.

     ... or mostly right.  A setter that is supposed to enforce a
restriction like "the value must be strictly positive" should be tested to
ensure that it does in fact throw the proper exception. Similarly for setters
with state dependencies like "the value can be changed at will before the
doItNowBabe() method is called, but cannot be changed thereafter."

> [... good advice about test harnesses ...]
> Been there, done that, got the benefits.

     Ditto, seconded, and Aayy-men!

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Eleven hundred thirty-five days to go.

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Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> (Kiwi User) - 2017-12-12 16:31 +1200
  Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> (Eric Douglas) - 2017-12-12 10:24 +1200
    Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> (Kiwi User) - 2017-12-12 20:05 +1200
      Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> (Eric Sosman) - 2017-12-12 15:41 +1200
        Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> (Kiwi User) - 2017-12-12 21:04 +1200
          Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> (Eric Douglas) - 2017-12-12 13:33 +1200
            Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> (Kiwi User) - 2017-12-12 22:41 +1200
              Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> (Eric Sosman) - 2017-12-12 17:57 +1200
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> (Eric Douglas) - 2017-12-13 04:51 +1200
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> (Eric Sosman) - 2017-12-13 08:21 +1200
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> (Eric Douglas) - 2017-12-13 05:40 +1200
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> (Kiwi User) - 2017-12-13 15:19 +1200
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> (Eric Douglas) - 2017-12-13 07:57 +1200
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> (Kiwi User) - 2017-12-13 17:30 +1200
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2017-12-15 22:31 -0500
                Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2017-12-16 09:08 +0000

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