Re: Where does jtreg fit into the big picture?

Hmm,

my initial suspicion is that for the SE part the
community would want to leverage the past and use
whatever mountain of tests there are already.  Unless
people really feel motivated and want to convert them
to some other test harness.  Are there any glaring
flaws with jtreg?

leouser

--- David Herron <David.Herron@...> wrote:

> 
> Well, the harness choice has been a long-running
> debate inside our team 
> for a long time.  For whatever it's worth we have
> several different 
> harnesses in use.
> 
> The jtreg harness is largely used by the SE
> development groups for the 
> unit and regression tests.  The JCK team has its own
> harness (Java Test) 
> from which jtreg is derived.  You may have seen the
> jtharness project 
> that just launched a day or two ago on java.net. 
> The quality team has 
> our own harness we call Tonga.
> 
> I don't know if there is a set plan of record (yet)
> regarding an 
> official test harness.  My opinion is this could be
> a topic of 
> discussion whether there should be an "official"
> test harness, and if so 
> what it should be, what the requirements are, etc.
> 
> - David Herron
> 
> 
> Leo User wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was taking a gander at jtreg and saw that its
> how
> > you run the tests for the compiler.  Is this going
> to
> > be the tool that will be used for all testing of
> JDK
> > components as they become available?  I see
> there's a
> > mailing list for it specifically so Im going to
> take a
> > mad guess and say yes.
> >
> > leouser
> >
> >   
> 

 
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