running junit on ant source

[Adam Hardy <ad...@cyberspaceroad.com>]

I'm doing some mods to two of the ant source classes, and I'm following 
the guidelines from the ant docs about running tests under junit and 
creating new tests.

I'm new to junit today actually and I'm using "ant run-tests" in the ant 
home directory to make sure all the junit tests that come with the 
source code work.

I get this failure on the first testcase junit comes to and I don't know 
what it means. Is it obvious to anyone what's wrong here? I presume the 
problem lies with my set-up, because according to junit, I should get 
more info when a test fails - I presume that the "null" here would 
normally be a line or 2 about what failed:

     [junit] Testcase: 
testLineContains(org.apache.tools.ant.filters.LineContainsTest):  FAILED
     [junit] null
     [junit] junit.framework.AssertionFailedError


Thanks if you can help,
Adam

Re: running junit on ant source

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Adam Hardy <ad...@cyberspaceroad.com> wrote:

> I get this failure on the first testcase junit comes to and I don't
> know what it means.

It means that the test has failed 8-)

More seriously, I suspect something in your setup is different from
the way Ant's testsuite expects it to be.

> Is it obvious to anyone what's wrong here?

Not from the small snippet you post.

> because according to junit, I should get more info when a test fails
> - I presume that the "null" here would normally be a line or 2 about
> what failed:

No, the "null" probably means that an assertTrue(condition) has
failed.  Somewhere since JUnit 3.7 or 3.8 it will print null as a
message when you use the one-arg version of assertTrue.

Can you post the full stack-trace (probably to the dev list) as well
as details on you setup?

Stefan