Re: [mevenide-user] Advice on test design

If you expect to have the properties file in a JAR then indeed it
doesn't seem to work. But you might use an actual File to get the
property and then you either have it in /tmp for example of not.

Another, nicer, way would be to allow your class to use InputStreams.
This way you can have a valid property with the inputstream
(getClass().getResource("valid.pro")), an invalid one, and a missing
(null stream) one.

My 2c,
Emilian

On Nov 27, 2007 11:28 AM, andy law (RI) <[email protected]> wrote:
> All,
>
> I *know* this is mostly off-topic for this list (and I apologise in
> advance), but I figure this is still a good place to start.
>
> I am running Netbeans 5.5 with mevenide trying to decide how I attack
> the following problem:
>
> Let's assume that I'm writing some code that uses a properties file to
> define some parameter or other. In the absence of the properties file,
> the code should use a sensible default value. So, I have the following
> tests to run
>
> 1) No properties file - default behaviour
> 2) Properties file with nonsense value - default behaviour with warning
> 3) Properties file with sensible value - use supplied value
>
> How do I run tests 1 *and* 2/3 in the same project given that the test
> properties file is either supplied or not (as far as I can tell) in
> src/test/resources.
>
> Later,
>
> Andy
>
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