Valerie’s suggestion is a good one.  The test will require a minimum image with 
cross-platform security providers to run the test while it can still verify 
other platform-specific providers.

Mandy

> On Jun 29, 2016, at 10:41 AM, Valerie Peng <valerie.p...@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> It's not like the test silently passes as the test still covers the 
> cross-platform modules.
> The way I view this is that the platform=specific modules are "optional" and 
> we update the expected result by detecting their presence (or the not). It's 
> not a hack or workaround, but rather an enhancement for the test to handle 
> different images.
> 
> Just my .02,
> Valerie
> 
> On 6/29/2016 10:22 AM, Alexandre (Shura) Iline wrote:
>>> On Jun 28, 2016, at 5:22 PM, Valerie Peng <valerie.p...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> One of the purpose of this test is to test the ordering (see the initial 
>>> bug which this test is for: JDK-6997010).
>>> 
>>> The original test already detects the OS and will skip certain providers 
>>> accordingly.
>>> Instead of splitting the test into multiple platform-specific tests, maybe 
>>> we can keep the original test but add module-presence checking? Is there 
>>> API available to query if certain module are present?
>> ModuleFinder.ofSystem().find(String).
>> 
>> We can have only the cross-platform modules listed in @modules and make the 
>> test to pass silently if the required platform-specific modules are not 
>> present.
>> 
>> So, for example, on windows, if the test would be executed against an image 
>> which have no jdk.crypto.mscapi, the test will not run any checks and report 
>> pass.
>> 
>> This would help to avoid the additional test creation, but it will add 
>> another silently passing test, which is less clean.
>> 
>> Mandy?
>> 
>> Shura
>> 
>>> If yes, then we can leave out the platform-specific providers from the 
>>> @modules line and skip the providers if either the OS does not match or the 
>>> module is not present.
>>> 
>>> If we can't query what modules are available, then we may have to think of 
>>> something else.
>>> Valerie
>>> 
>>> On 6/27/2016 12:27 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>>>> I’m including security-dev which would be a better list to review this 
>>>> test fix.
>>>> 
>>>> Valerie,
>>>>    Does this test have to be order-sensitive?  I think this test would be 
>>>> cleaner to make it order-insensitive and simply test the security provider 
>>>> initialization.
>>>> 
>>>> See my comments below.
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 27, 2016, at 8:21 AM, Alexandre (Shura) Iline 
>>>>> <alexandre.il...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please take a look on a suggested for for the 
>>>>> java/lang/SecurityManager/CheckSecurityProvider.java test.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The test in question depend on a list of modules, some of them are 
>>>>> platform-specific. Listing all the dependencies in one test is causing 
>>>>> the test to be skipped on every platform. In an offline conversation it 
>>>>> was decided that it is better to split this tests into a few tests to 
>>>>> declare the per-platform module dependencies.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8158670
>>>>> The suggested fix: 
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shurailine/8158670/webrev.00/
>>>> The copyright header start year of the new tests should be 2016.
>>>> 
>>>> I would suggest to make CheckSecurityProvide a platform-neutral test, i.e.,
>>>> - drop @requires
>>>> - make line 94-97 to ignore the platform-dependent provider if it’s 
>>>> present in the white list
>>>> 
>>>> If we could make this test order-insensitive, it’d be cleaner to maintain 
>>>> a platform-neutral list of security providers and one list for the 
>>>> platform-dependent security providers for each platform.  Just an idea.
>>>> 
>>>> Mandy
>>>> 
> 

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