Oh, that's cool. We certainly want to share what we can, and use what we can. We'll still probably have implementation specific tests though...
Happy New Year, Mark :) geir >-----Original Message----- >From: Mark Wielaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 4:25 PM >To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Re: regression test suite > >On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 10:52 -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: >> > I think the natural place for the regression tests should >be together >> > with the unit tests. I am not sure, however, if the >regression tests >> > should be marked explicitly or differ from the unit tests >in any other >> > specific way. >> > >> > What do you think about it? Any preferences? >> >> I think that putting them in a parallel tree is worth >considering, just >> for the sake of organization, as long as this is transparent to the >> tools a developer/user would use to do run the tests. I do >think that >> "regression test" is a broad term, and we might want to >harvest things >> out of regression tests for where our unit tests fell short. > >Out of tree is probably easiest, especially if we want to share tests >across projects. Take a look at Mauve (http://sourceware.org/mauve/) it >has tens of thousands of tests for core libraries (but also for byte >code verifiers, visual tests, compiler, serialization, etc.) > >The good thing about having all tests of various projects in one place >like mauve is that everybody can easily run each others unit and >regression tests. There has been a discussion on the classpath >mailinglist about importing even more tests into mauve from GNU Crypto >now that that project is going to merge with GNU classpath. There were >some suggestions for improvements in the mauve setup. You might want to >join that discussion: >http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.classpath.devel/6846 > >And of course http://sourceware.org/ml/mauve-discuss/ > >Cheers, > >Mark > >-- >Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! >http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html > >Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/ >
