org.cdlib.xtf.util
Class Tester

Object
  Tester

public abstract class Tester
extends Object

Handles tedious details of making a little regression test for a given class.

Author:

Martin Haye

Field Summary

private static LinkedList	allTests List of all tests (or at least, tests for all classes that have been loaded.
private String	name Name of this test
private boolean	testedAlready True after test has been tried

Constructor Summary

Tester(String name)
Add this test to the global list of tests

Method Summary

void	test() Run this particular test.
static void	testAll() Run all registered tests.
protected abstract void	testImpl() Derived classes should override this method to perform the actual work of the test.

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

allTests

private static LinkedList allTests

List of all tests (or at least, tests for all classes that have been loaded.

name

private String name

Name of this test

testedAlready

private boolean testedAlready

True after test has been tried

Constructor Detail

Tester

public Tester(String name)

Add this test to the global list of tests

Method Detail

testAll

public static final void testAll()

Run all registered tests. It doesn't matter which runs first, since if a test has a dependency it should directly call those tests it depends on.

test

public final void test()

Run this particular test. If it has already been run, the test is skipped.

testImpl

protected abstract void testImpl()
                          throws Exception

Derived classes should override this method to perform the actual work of the test.

Throws:

Exception