com.strangelight.unit_test
Class ClassTester

java.lang.Object
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  +--java.util.AbstractCollection
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        +--java.util.AbstractList
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              +--java.util.Vector
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                    +--com.strangelight.unit_test.ClassTester

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable, java.util.Collection, java.util.List, java.util.RandomAccess, java.io.Serializable

public final class ClassTester

extends java.util.Vector

A class for running unit tests on classes which implement the _Testable interface. A ClassTester is a Vector which contains a list of classes to test. Each element in the ClassTester must be an object which "refers" to a class which implements the _Testable interface. An object "refers" to such a class in one of three ways:

1. The object is an instance of the class.
2. The object is an instance of java.lang.Class which encapsulates the class.
3. The object is a String containing the fully-qualified name of the class. (Remember: nested classes must be specified as "outerClass$innerClass", not as "outerClass.innerClass"!)

Note that ClassTester does not implement _Testable and therefore cannot explicitly be used to test itself. However, it does run a number of internal self-tests whenever run_tests() is called.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class java.util.Vector

capacityIncrement, elementCount, elementData

Fields inherited from class java.util.AbstractList

modCount

Constructor Summary

ClassTester()

ClassTester(java.util.Collection objects_to_test)

Method Summary

void	clear_messages()
java.lang.String	get_messages() Get diagnostic messages.
boolean	run_tests() Tests all of the classes in this ClassTester (by calling the static _test_class() methods of each one).

Methods inherited from class java.util.Vector

add, add, addAll, addAll, addElement, capacity, clear, clone, contains, containsAll, copyInto, elementAt, elements, ensureCapacity, equals, firstElement, get, hashCode, indexOf, indexOf, insertElementAt, isEmpty, lastElement, lastIndexOf, lastIndexOf, remove, remove, removeAll, removeAllElements, removeElement, removeElementAt, removeRange, retainAll, set, setElementAt, setSize, size, subList, toArray, toArray, toString, trimToSize

Methods inherited from class java.util.AbstractList

iterator, listIterator, listIterator

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface java.util.List

iterator, listIterator, listIterator

Constructor Detail

ClassTester

public ClassTester(java.util.Collection objects_to_test)

ClassTester

public ClassTester()

Method Detail

get_messages

public java.lang.String get_messages()

Get diagnostic messages.

Returns:

a String containing possibly useful diagnostic messages.

clear_messages

public void clear_messages()

run_tests

public boolean run_tests()
                  throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException

Tests all of the classes in this ClassTester (by calling the static _test_class() methods of each one).

Returns:

true on success, false otherwise. On failure, get_messages() may contain useful diagnostic messages.

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException