Description Dirk Baeumer 2003-12-04 18:27:04 EST

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I am trying to change the setUp method in my test suite so that it performs
some standard behaviour and delegates to a new method, uiSetUp.  I have my
own abstract superclass for the tests: UITestCase.  I want to change
existing subclasses (about 35 of them) from overriding setUp to overriding
uiSetUp.
Likewise for tearDown.

For example, the old code is:

public abstract class UITestCase extends TestCase {
  // setUp is not overridden from JUnit's TestCase class

}

public class ConcreteUITestCase extends UITestCase {
   protected void setUp() {
       // do some test-specific setup (most implementations don't currently
call super)
   }
}

The new way should be:

public abstract class UITestCase extends TestCase {
  protected final void setUp() {
     // do some standard setup, common to all tests, which can't be
overridden)
     uiSetUp();
  }

  protected void uiSetUp() {
     // do nothing by default
  }
}

public class ConcreteUITestCase extends UITestCase {
   public void uiSetUp() {
       // do some test-specific setup
   }
}

I tried simply renaming setUp to uiSetUp in UITestCase, but it won't let me
do that without starting at the highest declaration of setUp in TestCase.

Can any of the existing refactorings help with this change?

Thanks,
Nick