RFR: JDK-8177955 Add testing documentation

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2017-04-03 13:52, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Looks good. A few grammar/spelling corrections:
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> 96: "All tests"
Fixed.
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> 127: "command line"
Fixed.
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> 139: is this still true? I thought you added the default concurrency 
> behavior from the old hotspot test/Makefile.
Mr Eagle Eye! :-)

Updated to:
Defaults to TEST_JOBS (if set by `--with-test-jobs=`), otherwise it 
defaults to
JOBS, except for Hotspot, where the default is *number of CPU cores/2*, but
never more than 12.

/Magnus

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> /Erik
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> On 2017-04-03 12:00, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
>> The new run-test framework got a serious documentation effort 
>> alongside its creation. Unfortunately, there were at the time no good 
>> place to put that documentation.
>>
>> Now that we have common/doc and a framework for handling build 
>> documentation, it would be good to put the run-test documentation there.
>>
>> I intend to push this as a documentation bug (noreg-doc) into jdk9.
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8177955
>> WebRev: 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8177955-add-testing-docs/webrev.01
>>
>> /Magnus
>>
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