RFR: JDK-8180651: Make target to run tests on exploded image

Robbin Ehn robbin.ehn at oracle.com
Fri May 19 09:30:24 UTC 2017


Thank you Erik for doing this!

/Robbin

On 05/19/2017 11:26 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> In most cases, when running regression tests, you want to run them on the jdk image because that's the correct image and some tests will not work on other variants. 
> However, many tests can be run successfully on the exploded image and since building the full jdk image takes quite a bit of extra time, especially when running a slowdebug 
> build, enabling this as an option can significantly improve developer efficiency.
> 
> I therefor propose the new target "exploded-run-test". It will work just like run-test but it depends on and runs on the exploded image.
> 
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8180651
> 
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8180651/webrev.01/
> 
> /Erik
> 



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