Do you have an alternative for us to consider yet? Regards, Tim
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > I do. I don't like the idea that we need to use the suites like this. > > I'm going to write a little ant task on the plane today (if I make it) > to deal with this, so please delay so we can compare the two solutions. > > geir > > Tim Ellison wrote: >> Does anyone object to this going in? >> >> It is the XML exclusion list that was described a while ago. My >> recollection is that people thought that it was a good idea -- but just >> rechecking before I go ahead. >> >> This will only be applied to LUNI at the moment, but the technique is >> generally applicable. >> >> Regards, >> Tim >> >> George Harley (JIRA) wrote: >>> Enable more LUNI tests to run using XML exclusion list >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> Key: HARMONY-263 >>> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-263 >>> Project: Harmony >>> Type: Improvement >>> Components: Classlib Environment: All >>> Reporter: George Harley >>> >>> >>> This issue suggests running the LUNI test suite with a JUnit >>> decorator that can exclude known test failures previously documented >>> in an XML file. >>> >>> The exclusion list is already in the tree along with its XML schema >>> (see jcltest-excludes.xml and excludes.xsd under >>> support/src/test/resources) although it may be more helpful to move >>> these to under the top level make directory. Similarly, the JUnit >>> decorator class tests.util.SomeTests is already in the tree under >>> support/src/test/java. >>> The forthcoming patches propose updating the "run.tests" in >>> modules/luni/make/common/build.xml to run a decorated version of the >>> LUNI AllTests suite. Perhaps rather than being an outright >>> replacement of the existing "run.tests" target this could be a peer >>> target called something like "run.tests.with.exclusions" ? >>> >>> Hopefully the exclusions list and the JUnit decorator class approach >>> suggested in this issue will be adopted in other modules besides LUNI. >>> Note that because this issue enables more LUNI tests to run, the >>> suite will take longer to complete and will run the java.net.* tests >>> that rely on network servers (HTTP, FTP, SOCKS) being available as >>> documented in the README included in HARMONY-57. If the servers are >>> not available then failures will result which, I suppose, forces us >>> to think about how we might bundle test servers into the tree and >>> have them auto-started as the tests are run. >>> Patches to follow... >>> >>> Best regards, >>> George >>> >> > > -- Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IBM Java technology centre, UK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
