"Knut Anders Hatlen (JIRA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-3211?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel > ] > > Knut Anders Hatlen reopened DERBY-3211: > --------------------------------------- > > > Reopening the issue since there are some remaining problems: > > 1) Dan's comment about try/catch/println is not addressed. As the test is > written now, JUnit won't ever notice if the test fails, since all exceptions > are swallowed. > > 2) I don't think the port number and host name should be hard coded > in the test. Instead of "localhost", TestConfiguration.getHostName() > should be used. Also, I think we need to add a method to > TestConfiguration called getAlternativePort() or something, instead > of hard coding the port number 20000 in the test. The point of > centralizing the allocation of port numbers in TestConfiguration, is > to enable people to run multiple JUnit tests in parallel on the same > machine without conflicting with each other (there was an effort > some time ago to achieve this, I don't remember how far they
I did some work on this, and at that point in time, no tests used any port except the one found in TestConfiguration. I verified this by tracing the server code opening the port. This state of things may have deteriorated since, though. Thanks, Dag
