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

[Ulf Zibis]

Thanks Brian.

Is there any article, why you prefer testNG over JUnit?

-Ulf


Am 02.04.2012 19:47, schrieb 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
>>
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