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Re: Calling deprecated methods

From	Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Calling deprecated methods
Date	2017-12-16 16:24 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 12/15/2017 4:08 PM, Kiwi User (Kiwi User) wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 22:31:59 -0500, Richard Damon wrote:
> 
>> On 12/13/17 12:30 AM, Kiwi User (Kiwi User) wrote:
>>>> I know nothing of this sort of testing though I am curious to know how
>>>> you'd find the data that would generate errors when a method accepts a
>>>> number and handles 1, 1.5, and 2 just fine but 1.6 returns an
>>>> incorrect result.
>>>>
>>> Traditionally, you'd read the design specification. The one thing you
>>> MUST NOT do is to look at the code while you're writing tests. You're
>>> trying to test that it does what the requirements say it should and not
>>> what the coder wrote because he may have misunderstood the spec.
>>
> I should have extended this to say that testers should read javadocs output but
>   not the actual source code.

     Is there a place for coverage analysis in this scheme of things?

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Re: Calling deprecated methods Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> (Richard Damon) - 2017-12-15 22:31 +1200
  Re: Calling deprecated methods Kiwi User <martin@mydomain.invalid> (Kiwi User) - 2017-12-16 09:08 +1200
    Re: Calling deprecated methods Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-12-16 16:24 -0500

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