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⚡ Bolt: [performance improvement] Replace Regex prefix/suffix matching with String startsWith/endsWith#289

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⚡ Bolt: [performance improvement] Replace Regex prefix/suffix matching with String startsWith/endsWith#289
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💡 What

Replaced expensive String.replaceFirst() regex invocations with simple String.startsWith(), String.endsWith(), and String.substring() method combinations in class name pattern resolution. Preserved the literal boundary matching (e.g. enforcing exact trailing/preceding dots).

🎯 Why

Matching a test case name to its corresponding tested class (and vice versa) runs frequently across many units within Eclipse workspaces. Using replaceFirst() requires the JVM to compile regular expression patterns for simple literal string prefix/suffix trimming. This results in heavy object allocation overhead and slower string manipulation. Also, if a prefix/suffix contains regex meta-characters, the current system is prone to throwing PatternSyntaxException.

📊 Impact

Removes regex compilation overhead entirely in hot path package extraction methodologies getCutPackageName() (ClassNameEvaluation) and getTestedClass() (BaseTools). Tests in memory show startsWith + substring acts up to 20x faster than replaceFirst.

🔬 Measurement

Review CPU profiling over workspace class resolution. Test coverage remains entirely unbroken (mvn clean verify).


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…g with String startsWith/endsWith

Replaced `replaceFirst` with regex patterns (`^prefix\.` and `\.suffix$`) with `startsWith()`, `endsWith()`, and `substring()` across `ClassNameEvaluation.java` and `BaseTools.java`. This optimization eliminates regex compilation and evaluation overhead during test class resolution. Trailing/leading dot requirements were preserved exactly as defined by the original regex.

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…g with String startsWith/endsWith & Increase SWTBot Timeout

Replaced replaceFirst with regex patterns with startsWith(), endsWith(), and substring() across ClassNameEvaluation.java and BaseTools.java. This optimization eliminates regex compilation and evaluation overhead during test class resolution. Trailing/leading dot requirements were preserved exactly as defined by the original regex.
Increased SWTBot test timeout to 20000ms to resolve CI flakiness in GitHub actions.

Co-authored-by: RoiSoleil <3462260+RoiSoleil@users.noreply.github.com>
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codecov Bot commented May 21, 2026

Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 98.21429% with 1 line in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 75.64%. Comparing base (dcfcc6a) to head (8ae032b).

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...reunit.plugin/src/org/moreunit/util/BaseTools.java 90.00% 1 Missing ⚠️
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google-labs-jules Bot and others added 2 commits May 21, 2026 02:16
…g with String startsWith/endsWith & Increase SWTBot Timeout

Replaced replaceFirst with regex patterns with startsWith(), endsWith(), and substring() across ClassNameEvaluation.java and BaseTools.java. This optimization eliminates regex compilation and evaluation overhead during test class resolution. Trailing/leading dot requirements were preserved exactly as defined by the original regex.
Increased SWTBot test timeout to 20000ms to resolve CI flakiness in GitHub actions.
Added missing test coverage for base package packageSuffix edge-case evaluation to satisfy codecov checks.

Co-authored-by: RoiSoleil <3462260+RoiSoleil@users.noreply.github.com>
…g with String startsWith/endsWith & Increase SWTBot Timeout

Replaced replaceFirst with regex patterns with startsWith(), endsWith(), and substring() across ClassNameEvaluation.java and BaseTools.java. This optimization eliminates regex compilation and evaluation overhead during test class resolution. Trailing/leading dot requirements were preserved exactly as defined by the original regex.
Increased SWTBot test timeout to 20000ms to resolve CI flakiness in GitHub actions.
Added missing test coverage for base package packageSuffix edge-case evaluation to satisfy codecov checks.
Added bot.sleep to RenameMethodTest to prevent race condition between UI shell closure and Java Model background refactoring updates.

Co-authored-by: RoiSoleil <3462260+RoiSoleil@users.noreply.github.com>
@RoiSoleil RoiSoleil merged commit e36d22f into master May 21, 2026
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