My girlfriend just got delicious Chinese take-out food for us, and after dinner, I read my fortune cookie. It said:
Failure is feedback. And feedback is the breakfast of champions.
I never considered myself a breakfast person, so either I’m wrong about that or I don’t fail that often. Coincidentally, though, failure really is the only feedback in concurrent testing right now. If something goes wrong, you know there’s an error. If a concurrent unit test passes, you don’t know very much.
Before dinner, I’ve been fixing a few bugs that were left in yesterday’s implementation of passing method arguments [1]. One bug was particularly confusing, and I stared at disassembled Java code for about an hour. I finally realized that I was using a HashMap to store the parameter types, and the order of the keys isn’t fixed, so I was getting randomized method signatures.
Now I’m tinkering with @Combine-style annotations and passing method arguments.
