unit tests creates giant file

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. run ant test
2. watch test fail
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Testsuite: edu.ucla.sspace.common.MatricesTest
Tests run: 5, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Time elapsed: 0.354 sec

Testcase: createSparseMatrix took 0.254 sec
Testcase: createArrayMatrix took 0.005 sec
Testcase: createOnDiskTest took 0.004 sec
        Caused an ERROR
java.io.IOException: No space left on device
java.io.IOError: java.io.IOException: No space left on device
        at
edu.ucla.sspace.common.matrix.OnDiskMatrix.<init>(OnDiskMatrix.java:97)
        at
edu.ucla.sspace.common.matrix.OnDiskMatrix.<init>(OnDiskMatrix.java:72)
        at edu.ucla.sspace.common.Matrices.create(Matrices.java:101)
        at
edu.ucla.sspace.common.MatricesTest.createOnDiskTest(MatricesTest.java:46)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: No space left on device
        at java.io.RandomAccessFile.setLength(Native Method)
        at
edu.ucla.sspace.common.matrix.OnDiskMatrix.<init>(OnDiskMatrix.java:92)

This test really shouldn't create such a large file.  On user systems, this
may interfere with hard drive performance, page files, etc. as the disk
gets filled up just for a single test.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by David.Ju...@gmail.com on 18 Jun 2009 at 1:15

sunandap / airhead-research

unit tests creates giant file #17