On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 16:54:33 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> > just curious: in what conditions the tests will be executed in a > > source-less test environment? and in any case isn't it preferable to let > > the test fail so that the user knows that it failed? > > Some external users execute tests in a context where the source directory is > not available. Throwing `jtreg.SkippedException` is a mild form of noticeable > failure. I don't have an access to any environment to test it, so I prefer the same solution as already applied in several similar situations across the JDK tests. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16470#issuecomment-1855694559