Remember to give a hint

We ran into once interesting discussion during our last code review session. As we all do it's a common trick to use relax access restrictions to test a particular property/method/function, so that you can use it in a unit test, which resides in the same package (though in different catalog).

Whether you think it's good or bad, I believe always remember to give a hint about that to the developer. A simple annotation that tells you why a particular property access restriction has been relaxed.

Consider:

public class foo {
private Long x;
String y;
}

Hummm Why is 'y' package scoped?

public class foo {
private Long x;
@VisibleForTesting String y;
}

Ah, that's why

Nice isn't it.
Manisha