That's right, we took in a number of contributions and merged the tests
in as quickly as we could, so we now have most of the tests being run
regularly.

We should go through and rename the packages to a consistent convention
(and it might as well be now as later).

Regards,
Tim

Mark Hindess wrote:
> On 4/23/06, Dmitry M. Kononov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 4/22/06, LvJimmy,Jing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> In my understanding, if someone want to add some regression tests to test 
>>> APIs, it
>>> can be added directly to the API test files if any, it is not necessary to
>>> open a new file.
>> I see. Could you please explain what is your understanding of tests
>> that are located in the luni/src/test/java/org/apache/harmony/tests/*
>> directories? I would like to know what is the reason of creating
>> subdirectories of the <module>/src/test/java directory others than the
>> tests directory?
> 
> You are right to be confused.  It is confusing.  But it's just
> historical.
> 
> I think it is an attempt to match the package naming convention for
> tests as described at:
> 
>   
> http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/subcomponents/classlibrary/pkgnaming.html
> 
> It says that tests should be in packages named:
> 
>   org.apache.harmony.<modulename>.tests
> 
> The 'tests' packages are a result of integration of contributions that
> for whatever reason did not use the naming convention.
> 
> Having said that I think that *none* of the tests current have the
> correct package names according the that naming convention.  Those
> closest are missing the '<modulename>' before 'tests'.
> 
> Should we rename our tests to match the convention?  (Thus breaking
> lots of JIRA patches ;-( ).
> 
> Regards,
>  Mark.
> 
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> Mark Hindess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> IBM Java Technology Centre, UK.
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