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Automated detection of assertion operands that contain locally visible side effects is straightforward. Some analyses could require programmer assistance to determine which method invocations lack side effects.
Related Guidelines
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The assert statement is supported on the Dalvik VM but is ignored under the default configuration. Assertions may be enabled by setting the system property "debug.assert" via: adb shell setprop debug.assert 1 or by sending the command line argument "--enable-assert" to the Dalvik VM.
Bibliography
| [Seacord 2015] | |
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