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

[Ulf Zibis]

Thanks very much, Brian,

-Ulf

Am 03.04.2012 00:29, schrieb Brian Goetz:
> The primary reason is: Oracle has internal processes that we must follow to use third-party 
> software in our products (whether open-source or closed-source products, and whether or not the 
> third-party software is ultimately distributed with the product or not.)  An examination of the 
> TestNG license compared to the JUnit license suggested that it was going to be significantly 
> easier to obtain the required internal approvals for TestNG.
>
> Since TestNG is also pretty good (one could argue which is better, and there are pros and cons on 
> both sides of this argument, but its clearly "good enough"), we chose the path of "let's get 
> something done."
>
>
>
> On 4/2/2012 5:28 PM, Ulf Zibis wrote:
>> 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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