Here is my specific scenario.
I have a class QueryQueue that wraps the QueryTask class within the ArcGIS API for Flex. This enables me to easily queue up multiple query tasks for execution. Calling QueryQueue.execute() iterate through all the tasks in my queue and call their execute method.
When all the results have been received and processed QueryQueue will dispatch the completed event. The interface to my class is very simple.
public interface IQueryQueue
{
function get inProgress():Boolean;
function get count():int;
function get completed():ISignal;
function get canceled():ISignal;
function add(query:Query, url:String, token:Object = null):void;
function cancel():void;
function execute():void;
}
For the QueryQueue.execute method to be considered successful several things must occur.
task.execute must be called on each query task once and only once
inProgress = true while the results are pending
inProgress = false when the results have been processed
completed is dispatched when the results have been processed
canceled is never called
The processing done within the queue correctly processes and packages the query results
What I am struggling with is breaking these tests into readable, logical, and maintainable tests.
Logically I am testing one state, that is the successful execution state. This would suggest one unit test that would assert #1 through #6 above are true.
[Test] public mustReturnQueryQueueEventArgsWithResultsAndNoErrorsWhenAllQueriesAreSuccessful:void
However, the name of the test is not informative as it does not describe all the things that must be true in order to be considered a passing test.
Reading up online (including here and at programmers.stackexchange.com) there is a sizable camp that asserts that unit tests should only have one assertion (as a guideline). As a result when a test fails you know exactly what failed (i.e. inProgress not set to true, completed displayed multiple times, etc.) You wind up with potentially a lot more (but in theory simpler and clearer) tests like so:
[Test] public mustInvokeExecuteForEachQueryTaskWhenQueueIsNotEmpty():void
[Test] public mustBeInProgressWhenResultsArePending():void
[Test] public mustNotInProgressWhenResultsAreProcessedAndSent:void
[Test] public mustDispatchTheCompletedEventWhenAllResultsProcessed():void
[Test] public mustNeverDispatchTheCanceledEventWhenNotCanceled():void
[Test] public mustReturnQueryQueueEventArgsWithResultsAndNoErrorsWhenAllQueriesAreSuccessful:void
// ... and so on
This could wind up with a lot of repeated code in the tests, but that could be minimized with appropriate setup and teardown methods.
While this question is similar to other questions I am looking for an answer for this specific scenario as I think it is a good representation of a complex unit testing scenario exhibiting multiple states and behaviors that need to be verified. Many of the other questions have, unfortunately, no examples or the examples do not demonstrate complex state and behavior.
In my opinion, and there will probably be many, there are a couple of things here:
If you must test so many things for one method, then it could mean your code might be doing too much in one single method (Single Responsibility Principle)
If you disagree with the above, then the next thing I would say is that what you are describing is more of an integration/acceptance test. Which allows for multiple asserts, and you have no problems there. But, keep in mind that this might need to be relegated to a separate section of tests if you are doing automated tests (safe versus unsafe tests)
And/Or, yes, the preferred method is to test each piece separately as that is what a unit test is. The closest thing I can suggest, and this is about your tolerance for writing code just to have perfect tests...Is to check an object against an object (so you would do one assert that essentially tests this all in one). However, the argument against this is that, yes it passes the one assert per test test, but you still lose expressiveness.
Ultimately, your goal should be to strive towards the ideal (one assert per unit test) by focusing on the SOLID principles, but ultimately you do need to get things done or else there is no real point in writing software (my opinion at least :)).
Let's focus on the tests you have identified first. All except the last one (mustReturnQueryQueueEventArgs...) are good ones and I could immediatelly tell what's being tested there (and that's very good sign, indicating they're descriptive and most likely simple).
The only problem is your last test. Note that extensive use of words "and", "with", "or" in test name usually rings problems bell. It's not very clear what it's supposed to do. Return correct results comes to mind first, but one might argue it's vague term? This holds true, it is vague. However you'll often find out that this is indeed pretty common requirement, described in details by method/operation contract.
In your particular case, I'd simplify last test to verify whether correct results are returned and that would be all. You tested states, events and stuff that lead to results building already, so there is no need to that again.
Now, advices in links you provided are quite good ones actually, and generally, I suggest sticking to them (single assertion for one test). The question is, what single assertion really stands for? 1 line of code at the end of test? Let's consider this simple example then:
// a method which updates two fields of our custom entity, MyEntity
public void Update(MyEntity entity)
{
entity.Name = "some name";
entity.Value = "some value";
}
This method contract is to perform those 2 operations. By success, we understand entity to be correctly updated. If one of them for some reasons fails, method as a unit is considered to fail. You can see where this is going; you'll either have two assertions or write custom comparer purely for testing purposes.
Don't be tricked by single assertion; it's not about lines of code or number of asserts (however, in majority of tests you'll write this will indeed map 1:1), but about asserting single unit (in the example above, update is considered to be an unit). And unit might be in reality multiple things that don't make any sense at all without eachother.
And this is exactly what one of questions you linked quotes (by Roy Osherove):
My guideline is usually that you test one logical CONCEPT per test. you can have multiple asserts on the same object. they will usually be the same concept being tested.
It's all about concept/responsibility; not the number of asserts.
I am not familiar with flex, but I think I have good experience in unit testing, so you have to know that unit test is a philosophy, so for the first answer, yes you can make a multiple assert but if you test the same behavior, the main point always in unit testing is to be very maintainable and simple code, otherwise the unit test will need unit test to test it! So my advice to you is, if you are new in unit testing, don't use multiple assert, but if you have good experience with unit testing, you will know when you will need to use them
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I'm doing my JUnit homework and need some explanations here.
Here's the quotation from my homework description:
One of the issues with boundary conditions is that the system needs to behave well even if the boundary is approached multiple times. This should be obvious, but it doesn't always happen in practice.
Remember that we can characterize an object as state and behavior. Typically, the state is not directly accessible, but instead, is accessed indirectly by means of the behavior. That is, the behavior reflects the state of the object.
Now, if we think about boundaries in math, it might not be too surprising to imagine the the value at some boundary will be different if we approach that boundary in different ways. So, if the value can be likened to the state, the state at the boundary may vary depending on how we got there. This would mean that the behavior could be different.
To make objects that behave consistently, we would have to insure that the internal state at those boundaries is consistent. So, test cases should check this assumption. To receive challenge points for this homework assignment enhance your test cases so that potential problems around the boundaries may be discovered.
Clearly mark the Challenge test cases with the string "### challenge ###" in the comments. Include in those comments what boundary is being tested, and how you're guessing that the state of the object may be different depending on how the boundary is being approached.
I don't understand this especially the highlighted part. What does he mean by "object behave consistently" and the "potential probelms"?
Also, how is this different than general boundary check that will just throws the exception and i expected in the JUnit?
Thank you!
Without knowing the details of the homework, an answer could only be somewhat generic, but I'll try.
Boundary checking is not just exception checking, its about seeing which paths in your code are execution on what condition. If you have control statements, loops, if-else, switch, etc you have to verify, on what conditions (of your internal state) those statements are processed in what way.
To me, boundary testing is that you change certain values of an instance field in a way that would cause the behavior to run through different branches of your code.
for example, you have this behavior:
if(someInstanceValue > 5) {
return "great";
} else {
return "poor";
}
Now you could test with data for someInstanceValue that define the boundary
4 : "poor"
5 : "great"
If you have multiple fields in your class, all of them define the state but only some of them may affect a certain path in your code. As the test is a specification of your class under test, written in code, you should specify which fields are relevant to a function, and which are not (by leaving them out).
So you should set up your instance-under-test accordingly (calling all setters) or if you require more complex objects, you could use frameworks like Mockito to specify the state (in a when().thenReturn() syntax).
If you want to verify if you covered all your boundaries, you could run a mutation test against your suite using a mutation testing tool like PIT. It will flip the switches in your code (i.e. replacing a < with a >=) to check whether your test will fail. Often, it's a good source of inspiration for improving the way you test.
Neverthelss, some parts of the homework assignment sound a bit confusing to me. You may approach a boundary from two sides, ok, but there is no such thing as a state that represents THE boundary, you're either on one or the other side of the boundary. If the way, how you approached one side of a boundary matters, and the object behaves differently depending on that "history" of how you reached that state, the history becomes part of the state. In other words: different history = different state.
Keep in mind: every instance field is part of the state. Every possible combination of values of your instance fields defines a single state. Every transition from one combination to another is a state transition triggered by calling a behavior. No think of your test describing this statemachine, be listing the triple of {currentState,input} -> nextState (with input being method invocation). Wich is basically the Given-When-Then structure good tests should have.
For example, in the case of "The array index out of bound" exception, why don't we check the array length in advance:
if(array.length < countNum)
{
//logic
}
else
{
//replace using exception
}
My question is, why choose to use an exception? and when to use an exception, instead of if-else
Thanks.
It depends on acceptable practices for a given language.
In Java, the convention is to always check conditions whenever possible and not to use exceptions for flow control. But, for example, in Python not only using exception in this manner is acceptable, but it is also a preferred practice.
They are used to inform the code that calls your code an exceptional condition occurred. Exceptions are more expensive than well formed if/else logic so you use them in exceptional circumstances such as reaching a condition in your code you cannot handle locally, or to support giving the caller of your code the choice of how to handle the error condition.
Usually if you find yourself throwing and catching exceptions in your own function or method, you can probably find a more efficient way of doing it.
There are many answers to that question. As a single example, from Java, when you are using multiple threads, sometimes you need to interrupt a thread, and the thread will see this when an InterruptedException is thrown.
Other times, you will be using an API that throws certain exceptions. You won't be able to avoid it. If the API throws, for example, an IOException, then you can catch it, or let it bubble up.
Here's an example where it would actually be better to use an exception instead of a conditional.
Say you had a list of 10,000 strings. Now, you only want those items which are integers. Now, you know that a very small number of them won't be integers (in string form). So should you check to see if every string is an integer before trying to convert them? Or should you just try to convert them and throw and catch an exception if you get one that isn't an integer? The second way is more efficient, but if they were mostly non-integers then it would be more efficient to use an if-statement.
Most of the time, however, you should not use exceptions if you can replace them with a conditional.
As someone has already said, 'Exceptions' in programming languages are for exceptional cases and not to set logical flow of your program. For example, in the case of given code snippet of your question, you have to see what the enclosing method's or function's intention is. Is checking array.length < countNum part of the business logic or not. If yes, then putting a pair of if/else there is the way to go. If that condition is not part of the business logic and the enclosing method's intention is something else, then write code for that something else and throw exception instead of going the if/else way. For example you develop an application for a school and in your application you have a method GetClassTopperGrades which is responsible for the business logic part which requires to return the highest marks of the student in a certain class. the method/function definition would be something like this:
int GetClassTopperGrades(string classID)
In this case the method's intention is to return the grades, for a valid class, which will always be a positive integer, according to the business logic of the application. Now if someone calls your method and passes a garbage string or null, what should it do? If should throw an exception e.g. ArgumentException or 'ArgumentNullException' because this was an exceptional case in this particular context. The method assumed that always a valid class ID will be passed and NULL or empty string is NOT a valid class ID (a deviation from the business logic).
Apart from that, in some conditions there is no prior knowledge about the outcome of a given code and no defined way to prevent an exceptional situation. For example, querying some remote database, if the network goes down, you don't have any other option there apart from throwing an exception. Would you check network connectivity before issuing every SQL query to the remote database?
There is strong and indisputable reason why to use exceptions - no matter of language. I strongly believe that decision about if to use exceptions or not have nothing to do with particular language used.
Using exceptions is universal method to notify other part of code that something wrong happened in kind of loosely coupled way. Let imagine that if you would like to handle some exceptional condition by using if.. nad else.. you need to insert into different part of your code some arbitrary variables and other stuff which probably would easily led to have spaghetti code soon after.
Let next imagine that you are using any external library/package and it's author decided to put in his/her code other arbitrary way to handle wrong states - it would force you to adjust to its way of dealing with it - for example you would need to check if particular methods returns true or false or whatever. Using exceptions makes handling errors much more easy - you just assume that if something goes wrong - the other code will throw exception, so you just wrap the code in try block and handle possible exception on your own way.
I have a class that requires some of its methods to be called in a specific order. If these methods are called out of order then the object will stop working correctly. There are a few asserts in the methods to ensure that the object is in a valid state. What naming conventions could I use to communicate to the next person to read the code that these methods need to be called in a specific order?
It would be possible to turn this into one huge method, but huge methods are a great way to create problems. (There are a 2 methods than can trigger this sequence so 1 huge method would also result in duplication.)
It would be possible to write comments that explain that the methods need to be called in order but comments are less useful then clearly named methods.
Any suggestions?
Is it possible to refactor so (at least some of) the state from the first function is passed as a paramter to the second function, then it's impossible to avoid?
Otherwise, if you have comments and asserts, you're doing quite well.
However, "It would be possible to turn this into one huge method" makes it sound like the outside code doesn't need to access the intermediate state in any way. If so, why not just make one public method, which calls several private methods successively? Something like:
FroblicateWeazel() {
// Need to be in this order:
FroblicateWeazel_Init();
FroblicateWeazel_PerformCals();
FroblicateWeazel_OutputCalcs();
FroblicateWeazel_Cleanup();
}
That's not perfect, but if the order is centralised to that one function, it's fairly easy to see what order they should come in.
Message digest and encryption/decryption routines often have an _init() method to set things up, an _update() to add new data, and a _final() to return final results and tear things back down again.
I'm having a hard time choosing whether I should "enforce" a condition or "assert" a condition in D. (This is language-neutral, though.)
Theoretically, I know that you use assertions to find bugs, and you enforce other conditions in order to check for atypical conditions. E.g. you might say assert(count >= 0) for an argument to your method, because that indicates that there's a bug with the caller, and that you would say enforce(isNetworkConnected), because that's not a bug, it's just something that you're assuming that could very well not be true in a legitimate situation beyond your control.
Furthermore, assertions can be removed from code as an optimization, with no side effects, but enforcements cannot be removed because they must always execute their condition code. Hence if I'm implementing a lazy-filled container that fills itself on the first access to any of its methods, I say enforce(!empty()) instead of assert(!empty()), because the check for empty() must always occur, since it lazily executes code inside.
So I think I know that they're supposed to mean. But theory is easier than practice, and I'm having a hard time actually applying the concepts.
Consider the following:
I'm making a range (similar to an iterator) that iterates over two other ranges, and adds the results. (For functional programmers: I'm aware that I can use map!("a + b") instead, but I'm ignoring that for now, since it doesn't illustrate the question.) So I have code that looks like this in pseudocode:
void add(Range range1, Range range2)
{
Range result;
while (!range1.empty)
{
assert(!range2.empty); //Should this be an assertion or enforcement?
result += range1.front + range2.front;
range1.popFront();
range2.popFront();
}
}
Should that be an assertion or an enforcement? (Is it the caller's fault that the ranges don't empty at the same time? It might not have control of where the range came from -- it could've come from a user -- but then again, it still looks like a bug, doesn't it?)
Or here's another pseudocode example:
uint getFileSize(string path)
{
HANDLE hFile = CreateFile(path, ...);
assert(hFile != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE); //Assertion or enforcement?
return GetFileSize(hFile); //and close the handle, obviously
}
...
Should this be an assertion or an enforcement? The path might come from a user -- so it might not be a bug -- but it's still a precondition of this method that the path should be valid. Do I assert or enforce?
Thanks!
I'm not sure it is entirely language-neutral. No language that I use has enforce(), and if I encountered one that did then I would want to use assert and enforce in the ways they were intended, which might be idiomatic to that language.
For instance assert in C or C++ stops the program when it fails, it doesn't throw an exception, so its usage may not be the same as what you're talking about. You don't use assert in C++ unless you think that either the caller has already made an error so grave that they can't be relied on to clean up (e.g. passing in a negative count), or else some other code elsewhere has made an error so grave that the program should be considered to be in an undefined state (e.g. your data structure appears corrupt). C++ does distinguish between runtime errors and logic errors, though, which may roughly correspond but I think are mostly about avoidable vs. unavoidable errors.
In the case of add you'd use a logic error if the author's intent is that a program which provides mismatched lists has bugs and needs fixing, or a runtime exception if it's just one of those things that might happen. For instance if your function were to handle arbitrary generators, that don't necessarily have a means of reporting their length short of destructively evaluating the whole sequence, you'd be more likely consider it an unavoidable error condition.
Calling it a logic error implies that it's the caller's responsibility to check the length before calling add, if they can't ensure it by the exercise of pure reason. So they would not be passing in a list from a user without explicitly checking the length first, and in all honesty should count themselves lucky they even got an exception rather than undefined behavior.
Calling it a runtime error expresses that it's "reasonable" (if abnormal) to pass in lists of different lengths, with the exception indicating that it happened on this occasion. Hence I think an enforcement rather than an assertion.
In the case of filesize: for the existence of a file, you should if possible treat that as a potentially recoverable failure (enforcement), not a bug (assertion). The reason is simply that there is no way for the caller to be certain that a file exists - there's always someone with more privileges who can come along and remove it, or unmount the entire fielsystem, in between a check for existence and a call to filesize. It's therefore not necessarily a logical flaw in the calling code when it doesn't exist (although the end-user might have shot themselves in the foot). Because of that fact it's likely there will be callers who can treat it as just one of those things that happens, an unavoidable error condition. Creating a file handle could also fail for out-of-memory, which is another unavoidable error on most systems, although not necessarily a recoverable one if for example over-committing is enabled.
Another example to consider is operator[] vs. at() for C++'s vector. at() throws out_of_range, a logic error, not because it's inconceivable that a caller might want to recover, or because you have to be some kind of numbskull to make the mistake of accessing an array out of range using at(), but because the error is entirely avoidable if the caller wants it to be - you can always check the size() before access if you have no other way of knowing whether your index is good or not. And so operator[] doesn't guarantee any checks at all, and in the name of efficiency an out of range access has undefined behavior.
assert should be considered a "run-time checked comment" indicating an assumption that the programmer makes at that moment. The assert is part of the function implementation. A failed assert should always be considered a bug at the point where the wrong assumption is made, so at the code location of the assert. To fix the bug, use a proper means to avoid the situation.
The proper means to avoid bad function inputs are contracts, so the example function should have a input contract that checks that range2 is at least as long as range1. The assertion inside the implementation could then still remain in place. Especially in longer more complex implementations, such an assert may inprove understandability.
An enforce is a lazy approach to throwing runtime exceptions. It is nice for quick-and-dirty code because it is better to have a check in there rather then silently ignoring the possibility of a bad condition. For production code, it should be replaced by a proper mechanism that throws a more meaningful exception.
I believe you have partly answered your question yourself. Assertions are bound to break the flow. If your assertion is wrong, you will not agree to continue with anything. If you enforce something you are making a decision to allow something to happen based on the situation. If you find that the conditions are not met, you can enforce that the entry to a particular section is denied.
One thing I've sometimes wondered is which is the better style out of the two shown below (if any)? Is it better to return immediately if a guard condition hasn't been satisfied, or should you only do the other stuff if the guard condition is satisfied?
For the sake of argument, please assume that the guard condition is a simple test that returns a boolean, such as checking to see if an element is in a collection, rather than something that might affect the control flow by throwing an exception. Also assume that methods/functions are short enough not to require editor scrolling.
// Style 1
public SomeType aMethod() {
SomeType result = null;
if (!guardCondition()) {
return result;
}
doStuffToResult(result);
doMoreStuffToResult(result);
return result;
}
// Style 2
public SomeType aMethod() {
SomeType result = null;
if (guardCondition()) {
doStuffToResult(result);
doMoreStuffToResult(result);
}
return result;
}
I prefer the first style, except that I wouldn't create a variable when there is no need for it. I'd do this:
// Style 3
public SomeType aMethod() {
if (!guardCondition()) {
return null;
}
SomeType result = new SomeType();
doStuffToResult(result);
doMoreStuffToResult(result);
return result;
}
Having been trained in Jackson Structured Programming in the late '80s, my ingrained philosophy was always "a function should have a single entry-point and a single exit-point"; this meant I wrote code according to Style 2.
In the last few years I have come to realise that code written in this style is often overcomplex and hard to read/maintain, and I have switched to Style 1.
Who says old dogs can't learn new tricks? ;)
Style 1 is what the Linux kernel indirectly recommends.
From https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst, chapter 1:
Now, some people will claim that having 8-character indentations makes
the code move too far to the right, and makes it hard to read on a
80-character terminal screen. The answer to that is that if you need
more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix
your program.
Style 2 adds levels of indentation, ergo, it is discouraged.
Personally, I like style 1 as well. Style 2 makes it harder to match up closing braces in functions that have several guard tests.
I don't know if guard is the right word here. Normally an unsatisfied guard results in an exception or assertion.
But beside this I'd go with style 1, because it keeps the code cleaner in my opinion. You have a simple example with only one condition. But what happens with many conditions and style 2? It leads to a lot of nested ifs or huge if-conditions (with || , &&). I think it is better to return from a method as soon as you know that you can.
But this is certainly very subjective ^^
Martin Fowler refers to this refactoring as :
"Replace Nested Conditional with Guard Clauses"
If/else statements also brings cyclomatic complexity. Hence harder to test cases. In order to test all the if/else blocks you might need to input lots of options.
Where as if there are any guard clauses, you can test them first, and deal with the real logic inside the if/else clauses in a clearer fashion.
If you dig through the .net-Framework using .net-Reflector you will see the .net programmers use style 1 (or maybe style 3 already mentioned by unbeli).
The reasons are already mentioned by the answers above. and maybe one other reason is to make the code better readable, concise and clear.
the most thing this style is used is when checking the input parameters, you always have to do this if you program a kind of frawework/library/dll.
first check all input parameters than work with them.
It sometimes depends on the language and what kinds of "resources" that you are using (e.g. open file handles).
In C, Style 2 is definitely safer and more convenient because a function has to close and/or release any resources that it obtained during execution. This includes allocated memory blocks, file handles, handles to operating system resources such as threads or drawing contexts, locks on mutexes, and any number of other things. Delaying the return until the very end or otherwise restricting the number of exits from a function allows the programmer to more easily ensure that s/he properly cleans up, helping to prevent memory leaks, handle leaks, deadlock, and other problems.
In C++ using RAII-style programming, both styles are equally safe, so you can pick one that is more convenient. Personally I use Style 1 with RAII-style C++. C++ without RAII is like C, so, again, Style 2 is probably better in that case.
In languages like Java with garbage collection, the runtime helps smooth over the differences between the two styles because it cleans up after itself. However, there can be subtle issues with these languages, too, if you don't explicitly "close" some types of objects. For example, if you construct a new java.io.FileOutputStream and do not close it before returning, then the associated operating system handle will remain open until the runtime garbage collects the FileOutputStream instance that has fallen out of scope. This could mean that another process or thread that needs to open the file for writing may be unable to until the FileOutputStream instance is collected.
Although it goes against best practices that I have been taught I find it much better to reduce the nesting of if statements when I have a condition such as this. I think it is much easier to read and although it exits in more than one place it is still very easy to debug.
I would say that Style1 became more used because is the best practice if you combine it with small methods.
Style2 look a better solution when you have big methods. When you have them ... you have some common code that you want to execute no matter how you exit. But the proper solution is not to force a single exit point but to make the methods smaller.
For example if you want to extract a sequence of code from a big method, and this method has two exit points you start to have problems, is hard to do it automatically. When i have a big method written in style1 i usually transform it in style2, then i extract methods then in each of them i should have Style1 code.
So Style1 is best but is compatible with small methods.
Style2 is not so good but is recommended if you have big methods that you don't want, have time to split.
I prefer to use method #1 myself, it is logically easier to read and also logically more similar to what we are trying to do. (if something bad happens, exit function NOW, do not pass go, do not collect $200)
Furthermore, most of the time you would want to return a value that is not a logically possible result (ie -1) to indicate to the user who called the function that the function failed to execute properly and to take appropriate action. This lends itself better to method #1 as well.
I would say "It depends on..."
In situations where I have to perform a cleanup sequence with more than 2 or 3 lines before leaving a function/method I would prefer style 2 because the cleanup sequence has to be written and modified only once. That means maintainability is easier.
In all other cases I would prefer style 1.
Number 1 is typically the easy, lazy and sloppy way. Number 2 expresses the logic cleanly. What others have pointed out is that yes it can become cumbersome. This tendency though has an important benefit. Style #1 can hide that your function is probably doing too much. It doesn't visually demonstrate the complexity of what's going on very well. I.e. it prevents the code from saying to you "hey this is getting a bit too complex for this one function". It also makes it a bit easier for other developers that don't know your code to miss those returns sprinkled here and there, at first glance anyway.
So let the code speak. When you see long conditions appearing or nested if statements it is saying that maybe it would be better to break this stuff up into multiple functions or that it needs to be rewritten more elegantly.