building and using tests?

[Erik Trimble]

Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> These are just the jdk regression tests in the jdk/test directory.
> There are also langtools/test regression tests too.
>
> -kto
>

In most of the repos, there's a top-level directory named "test", which 
contains the regression/unit tests for a whole bunch of stuff.

However, IIRC, the JCK itself still isn't available to non-licensees, 
and we have a significant number of tests which are non-free (they're 
owned by someone else and we can't give them away), that we haven't had 
time to audit them for free-ness, or are very licensee-specific (and 
contain confidential info).  The first and second categories obviously 
are never going to be made publicly available. The second category is 
slowly getting smaller, as people eventually look at the stuff and move 
it over into the free sections, but honestly, it's a very low priority.  
Frankly, we're still trying to get around to doing a full test audit to 
see if we actually need to even run everything we're doing right now 
(and, if we should start adding some other stuff for better coverage). 



Other than the full JCK suite, what is in the "test" directories should 
suffice for the vast majority of folks - they're fairly comprehensive, 
and cover a lot of ground. If they're not good enough, well, might I 
direct you over here to the licensee-section of the company....

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