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Interface ITester

All Superinterfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable

public interface ITester
extends java.lang.Cloneable

Interface for any sort of logging functionality. It simply is invoked through .test() and returns a float value, which is intended to be logged somewhere.

Very useful for tests such as web tests logging overall time taken to perform entire test, etc...

Version:

$Id$

Author:

Jeremy Kraybill, Jeremy Thomerson

Field Summary

static ITester

NO_OP_TESTER

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	clone()
float	test() Executes the test.

Field Detail

NO_OP_TESTER

static final ITester NO_OP_TESTER

Method Detail

test

float test()

Executes the test. If the test fails, the tester should throw a ReportingException rather than an Error.

Returns:

the time in seconds to execute the test (if it ran successfully), or whatever other data this tester logs.

clone

java.lang.Object clone()
                       throws java.lang.CloneNotSupportedException

Throws:

java.lang.CloneNotSupportedException