I fully agree. On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Dave Brosius <dbros...@mebigfatguy.com> wrote:
> As an aside, C* for some reason heavily uses asserts in unit tests, which > adds to the "can't see the forest for the trees" problem. I see no reason > for that. they should all be moved over to junit asserts. > > > > On 09/22/2016 03:52 AM, Benjamin Lerer wrote: > >> We can spend hours arguing about assert vs exceptions. I have seen it >> happen in every company I worked for. >> Overall, based on the patches I have reviewed, it seems to me that in >> general people are using them only has internal safety checks. >> Unfortunatly, the code change and we can miss things. >> If anybody think that some SPECIFIC assertions should be replaced by some >> real checks, I think the best way to do it is to open a JIRA ticket to >> raise the problem. >> >> >