Another Possible Improvement

On the other hand, I think I can re-enable checking if the event thread has finished and generating EventThreadStillProcessingErrors in the “update” Runnable that sets the test thread group the event thread uses, at least in certain cases.

It is possible that test A has generated the EventThreadStillProcessingError by putting a long Runnable aRunnable on the event queue. When test B starts executing, it puts an update Runnable updateB on the event queue, but it doesn’t execute yet.

If aRunnable finishes now and updateB executes while test B is still running, we can enable checking the event thread again. The event thread has “caught up” with the tests, so to speak.

If, on the other hand, test B finishes before aRunnable finishes, then test C will begin and enqueue an update Runnable updateC. Now aRunnable finishes and updateB executes. Here we clearly don’t want to enable checking, because test C is already executing.

So, if the test’s thread group and the new thread group for the event thread are identical, we can re-enable checking the event thread, because that means the event thread has caught up sufficiently.

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Software development engineer. Principal developer of DrJava. Recent Ph.D. graduate from the Department of Computer Science at Rice University.
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