jtreg, junit, and testng (was Re: Request for review : 7121314 : Behavior mismatch between AbstractCollection.toArray(T[] ) and its spec)

[Brian Goetz]

Yes.  We'll be migrating those to TestNG as part of the process.

On 3/30/2012 4:35 PM, Ulf Zibis wrote:
> Am 30.03.2012 19:38, schrieb Brian Goetz:
>>> Similarly class Infrastructure could be reused over all JDK's tests. But
>>> personnally I would prefer to more and more use the JUnit framework. Is
>>> there already an existing example?
>>
>> There's good news on this front. We are in the process of making
>> TestNG a supported test framework for writing unit and regression
>> tests in OpenJDK. TestNG inherits a lot of ideas from JUnit, so JUnit
>> users should find it easy to use, and there are plugins for all the
>> big IDEs.
>>
>> The goal you state -- making it easier to reuse test infrastructure --
>> is one of the reasons why we want to do this. Another is that many
>> people are already familiar / comfortable with this style of testing,
>> and therefore are more likely to contribute good tests.
>>
>> I don't have a schedule for when this will be supported within the
>> OpenJDK build and test process, but we're working on it.
>
> It seems, jtreg to JUnit bridge is already existing:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2009-October/002003.html
>
>
> I also have found an example:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/6891770/webrev.00/test/java/dyn/MethodHandlesTest.java.html
>
>
> -Ulf
>
>