Remove unnecessary public modifiers from test classes and methods

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Why these issues? All 5 issues stem from rule java:S5786, which flags unnecessary public modifiers in test code. While these are low-severity INFO issues, they represent highly automatable fixes with clear, localized changes that improve code consistency and align with JUnit5 best practices across the test suite.

This change removes unnecessary 'public' modifiers from test classes and methods across multiple test files in the flex-squid module, following JUnit5 conventions. Test classes and methods do not need to be public and should use package-private (default) visibility for better readability and to align with modern testing best practices.

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Fixed Issues

java:S5786 - Remove this 'public' modifier. • INFO • View issue 1
java:S5786 - Remove this 'public' modifier. • INFO • View issue 2

Location: flex-squid/src/test/java/org/sonar/flex/grammar/statements/ThrowStatementTest.java:29

Why is this an issue?

JUnit5 is more tolerant regarding the visibility of test classes and methods than JUnit4, which required everything to be public. Test classes and methods can have any visibility except private. It is however recommended to use the default package visibility to improve readability.

What changed

Removes the 'public' modifier from the test method 'eos_is_semicolon()' at line 37 of ThrowStatementTest.java, changing it to package-default visibility. JUnit5 test methods should use default package visibility rather than 'public' for improved readability and convention compliance. This hunk also addresses the second instance of the unnecessary 'public' modifier on a JUnit5 test method at line 37 of the same file.

--- a/flex-squid/src/test/java/org/sonar/flex/grammar/statements/ThrowStatementTest.java
+++ b/flex-squid/src/test/java/org/sonar/flex/grammar/statements/ThrowStatementTest.java
@@ -37,1 +37,1 @@ public class ThrowStatementTest {
-  public void eos_is_semicolon() {
+  void eos_is_semicolon() {

java:S5786 - Remove this 'public' modifier. • INFO • View issue 1
java:S5786 - Remove this 'public' modifier. • INFO • View issue 2

Location: flex-squid/src/test/java/org/sonar/flex/grammar/statements/DoStatementTest.java:29

Why is this an issue?

JUnit5 is more tolerant regarding the visibility of test classes and methods than JUnit4, which required everything to be public. Test classes and methods can have any visibility except private. It is however recommended to use the default package visibility to improve readability.

What changed

Removes the 'public' modifier from the test() method at line 29, changing it to package-private (default) visibility. JUnit5 test methods do not need to be public, and the recommended convention is to use default package visibility for improved readability. This hunk addresses both the unnecessary 'public' modifier on the method signature and the visibility issue flagged at the same location.

--- a/flex-squid/src/test/java/org/sonar/flex/grammar/statements/DoStatementTest.java
+++ b/flex-squid/src/test/java/org/sonar/flex/grammar/statements/DoStatementTest.java
@@ -29,1 +29,1 @@ public class DoStatementTest {
-  public void test() {
+  void test() {

java:S5786 - Remove this 'public' modifier. • INFO • View issue

Location: flex-squid/src/test/java/org/sonar/flex/grammar/statements/TryStatementTest.java:24

Why is this an issue?

JUnit5 is more tolerant regarding the visibility of test classes and methods than JUnit4, which required everything to be public. Test classes and methods can have any visibility except private. It is however recommended to use the default package visibility to improve readability.

What changed

Removes the 'public' modifier from the JUnit5 test class 'TryStatementTest', changing it to default package visibility. JUnit5 test classes do not need to be public, and the recommended convention is to use package-private visibility for improved readability.

--- a/flex-squid/src/test/java/org/sonar/flex/grammar/statements/TryStatementTest.java
+++ b/flex-squid/src/test/java/org/sonar/flex/grammar/statements/TryStatementTest.java
@@ -24,1 +24,1 @@ import org.sonar.sslr.tests.Assertions;
-public class TryStatementTest {
+class TryStatementTest {

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