[Biojava-dev] version of JUnit

[Moses Hohman]

It might be useful to note that all the tests compile and run fine 
under JUnit 3.8.1, so there are no
forward compatibility issues. (In particular, there appear to be no 
uses of Assert.assert(),
probably because plenty of people use of Java 1.4).

Moses

On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 04:49  AM, Keith James wrote:

>>>>>> "Moses" == Moses Hohman <mmhohman at northwestern.edu> writes:
>
>     Moses> Hi all, What version of JUnit are we assuming for
>     Moses> development? I wrote a test recently without the public
>     Moses> Classname(String name) {} constructor because that is a
>     Moses> feature of JUnit since 3.8 I think (maybe even earlier, I
>     Moses> don't remember the exact version they added that
>     Moses> improvement). However, someone added the constructor later
>     Moses> because they were having compile problems, because they
>     Moses> were using an older version of JUnit.
>
> The majority of the existing tests were written against JUnit 3.6 and
> 3.7. As you say, constructor became optional in 3.8.
>
> The full set of changes are at
>
> http://junit.sourceforge.net/README.html
>
>     Moses> I'd rather write tests without the clutter of that
>     Moses> constructor, but if we need to be compatible with an older
>     Moses> version of JUnit then I will include it in the future. Is
>     Moses> there an official/semi-official/not-so-official policy on
>     Moses> this?
>
> There's no official policy yet... Not knowing which version the
> majority of people are using, I would suggest including the
> constructor for purposes of backwards compatibility. As the changes go
> beyond the constructor (several assert methods were added) I think we
> should set date for an upgrade if there is a desire for the new
> features - perhaps post 1.3 release?
>
> Keith
>
> -- 
>
> - Keith James <kdj at sanger.ac.uk> bioinformatics programming support -
> - Pathogen Sequencing Unit, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK -
>