Re: [Q] Number of unit tests in Mauve and of assertions in Classpath?

["PureNative Software" <info at pure-native dot com>]

Markus,

Too bad I counldn't get you the data sooner...

The data is from NewJ Library version 0.5 (development snapshot) for the
Win32 platform using Visual C++ 6.0.

I'm not sure how many testing assertions (not to be confused with Java 1.4
assert) are inside Mauve. It would be easy to determine if you grep'd
through the Mauve source code, if you could successfully download it...

Regards,
Vargas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Markus Gälli" <markus.gaelli@iam.unibe.ch>
To: "Byron Vargas" <byron.vargas@worldpost.com>
Cc: "Sascha Brawer" <brawer@dandelis.ch>; "Stephen Crawley"
<crawley@dstc.edu.au>; <mauve-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 7:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Q] Number of unit tests in Mauve and of assertions in
Classpath?


Hi Byron,

> Here are some stats for you.

Thanks a lot for that detailed description. This is really of some use
for me, I just
could not include it in my paper as the submission deadline was one
hour ago.

I'd be curious, if you could also provide me with a version name of
NewJLibrary,
where this data holds.

As I was not successful to download Mauve (I tried the ftp version,
but the server seems to be down, then my OS-X stopped without throwing
any exception...),
I would also like to know how many assertions are called inside the
Mauve tests,
maybe you or someone else can answer this question too? Then I stop
bothering you,
promised :-)

Thanks again, this can be of some great value in one of the next papers
I want to write,
I'll submit the old one as soon as I get it accepted somewhere.

Cheers,

Markus
>
> NewJ Library is made up of the Pie Library, which is the foundation
> layer
> for automated object management and approximating Java language
> features in
> C++, and the Core J2 Library, which implements the core Java APIs like
> lang,
> io, util, etc. in C++. Both libraries combined consist of the
> following:
>
> Total lines: 100757
> Comment lines: 22542 (22.372638702% of total)
> Source code lines: 53245 (52.844963074% of total)
> Blank lines: 24970 (24.782396317% of total)
>
> Number of assertions in Pie Library: 43
> Number of assertions in Core J2 Library (java.* packages): 441
> Number of assertions in Core J2 Library (private packages): 221
>
> Additionally, the code base includes debug-only sections which take
> advantage of conditional compilation inherent in C++.
>
> Number of units tests, coverage, lines: Same as the Java version of
> Mauve
> for the packages and classes we support.
>
> "Assertions not executed by any unit test": We have no quantitative
> information on that.
>
> By "over several versions," what should I understand that to mean?
> (a) By "over several versions" of NewJ Library, like 0.1, 0.2, 0.3. If
> so,
> that would be very difficult to provide to you.
> (b) By "over several versions" of the Java API or specification. If
> so, NewJ
> Library supports 1.2 and some 1.4 features like assertions. Everything
> is in
> the same code base, compile-in or compile-out at build time, so it's
> all the
> same metrics.
>
> For more detailed information, download the trial version from
> pure-native.com, read the NewJ Developer's Guide (they're quite
> detailed and
> only around 50 pages), and peruse the included header files and
> samples.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> Vargas
> http://www.pure-native.com/newj.html
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Markus Gälli" <markus.gaelli@iam.unibe.ch>
> To: "PureNative Software" <info@pure-native.com>
> Cc: "Sascha Brawer" <brawer@dandelis.ch>; "Stephen Crawley"
> <crawley@dstc.edu.au>; <mauve-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 8:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [Q] Number of unit tests in Mauve and of assertions in
> Classpath?
>
>
>> Hi Vargas,
>>
>>> Regarding your question:
>>>
>>>>>> - Do you know any (as responsive :-) java open source community
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> some big project and which
>>>>>> uses both, JDK 1.4 (thus theoretically assertions) and unit tests?
>>>
>>> Although not a free (as in GNU) software project, NewJ Library for
>>> C++, an
>>> independent 100% native implementation of the core Java API, uses
>>> both
>>> unit
>>> tests and assertions. The test cases are our C++ version of Mauve,
>>> which
>>> make use of the gnu::testlet::Testlet and the rest of the testing
>>> framework
>>> just like the Java version. The assertions are actually built right
>>> into the
>>> Core J2 Library implementation, which may be compiled in or out for
>>> debug or
>>> release builds. As you might expect, the use of both unit tests (like
>>> Mauve)
>>> and assertions find more coding or logic errors than either one
>>> alone.
>>> Furthermore, unit tests and assertions serve slightly different
>>> purposes and
>>> are applicable to slightly different circumstances.
>> Thanks for that info.
>>
>> Maybe I am asking for too much here, but I would be very curious to
>> know the
>>
>> - #lines of code(NewJ Library),
>> - #assertions(NewJ Library),
>> - #unit tests and
>> - #lines of code(unit tests)
>> -#coverage of the unit tests
>> -#assertions not executed by any unit test
>> - over several versions?
>>
>> So if you happen to be able to answer only some of this questions,
>> this
>> would be great.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Markus
>>
>