Draft JEP: JDK Core Libraries Test Stabilization

[Steve Poole]

I'll 'third' that.  Looks like a good JEP proposal. 





From:   Daniel Bryant <daniel.bryant at tai-dev.co.uk>
To:     Martijn Verburg <martijnverburg at gmail.com>, "Rory O'Donnell" 
<rory.odonnell at oracle.com>
Cc:     "quality-discuss at openjdk.java.net" 
<quality-discuss at openjdk.java.net>, Stuart Marks 
<stuart.marks at oracle.com>, "adoption-discuss at openjdk.java.net" 
<adoption-discuss at openjdk.java.net>
Date:   01/05/2014 16:55
Subject:        Re: Draft JEP: JDK Core Libraries Test Stabilization
Sent by:        "adoption-discuss" 
<adoption-discuss-bounces at openjdk.java.net>



I'll second that Martijn - and fixing these bugs could offer a bigger 
challenge than the common-and-garden compiler warning fixes etc! I'm 
sure many community members would be interested in helping out here.

Best wishes,

Daniel




On 01/05/2014 10:15, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> Really happy to see this happening - @Stuart - if the bugs can all be
> tagged in a particular way then perhaps it's a good target for the 
Adoption
> Group in their hackdays (assuming some of the tests can be reproduced on
> our platforms)
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
>
> On 1 May 2014 09:08, Rory O'Donnell Oracle, Dublin Ireland <
> rory.odonnell at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Stuart,
>>
>> Thanks for the pointer, very interested in having stable tests as we
>> publish the
>> results ever more frequently !  cc'ing the adoption group.
>>
>> Rgds,Rory
>>
>>
>> On 01/05/2014 01:14, Stuart Marks wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> It might be of interest to this group that I've posted a draft JEP 
about
>>> core libraries test stabilization (that is, fixing up the
>>> spuriously-failing tests) to core-libs-dev at openjdk. See the following
>>> message:
>>>
>>> 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2014-May/026703.html
>>>
>>> Followup discussion should be on core-libs-dev.
>>>
>>> s'marks
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> Rgds,Rory O'Donnell
>> Quality Engineering Manager
>> Oracle EMEA , Dublin, Ireland
>>
>>

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