Package edu.pdx.cs.joy

Class InvokeMainTestCase

java.lang.Object

edu.pdx.cs.joy.InvokeMainTestCase

Direct Known Subclasses:

BuildPhonebookTest, InvokeMainTest, MovieDatabaseRmiTestCase

public abstract class InvokeMainTestCase
extends Object

The superclass of test classes that invoke a main method to test a Java program.

Since:

Summer 2010

Author:

David Whitlock

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
protected static class	InvokeMainTestCase.MainMethodResult	Invokes the main method of a class and captures information about the invocation such as the data written to standard out and standard error and the exit code.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
InvokeMainTestCase()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
protected InvokeMainTestCase.MainMethodResult	invokeMain(Class<?> mainClass, String... args)	Invokes the main method of the given class with the given arguments and returns an object that represents the result of invoking that method.
protected InvokeMainTestCase.MainMethodResult	invokeMainAllowingMutableStaticFields(Class<?> mainClass, String... args)	Invokes the main method of the given class with the given arguments and returns an object that represents the result of invoking that method.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

InvokeMainTestCase

public InvokeMainTestCase()

Method Details

invokeMain

protected InvokeMainTestCase.MainMethodResult invokeMain(Class<?> mainClass,
 String... args)

Invokes the main method of the given class with the given arguments and returns an object that represents the result of invoking that method.

Parameters:

mainClass - The class whose main method is invoked

args - The arguments passed to the main method

Returns:

The result of the method invocation

invokeMainAllowingMutableStaticFields

protected InvokeMainTestCase.MainMethodResult invokeMainAllowingMutableStaticFields(Class<?> mainClass,
 String... args)

Invokes the main method of the given class with the given arguments and returns an object that represents the result of invoking that method. This method will not throw a MainClassContainsMutableStaticFields exception if the mainClass has mutable static fields.

Parameters:

mainClass - The class whose main method is invoked

args - The arguments passed to the main method

Returns:

The result of the method invocation