RFR: 8004748: clean up @build tags in RMI tests

[Stuart Marks]

On 12/12/12 2:43 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 11/12/2012 23:53, Stuart Marks wrote:
>> Please review the following gigantic webrev [1] to clean up @build tags in
>> RMI tests. Details underlying this change are in the bug report [2].
>>
>> Briefly, if test classes listed in @build tags are in the wrong order, this
>> trips over a jtreg problem that in turn causes a cascade of subsequent tests
>> to fail. It's sensitive to the order in which tests run. The problem
>> currently occurs in the jdk7u repo. It doesn't happen in jdk8 right now, but
>> as things shift around it might occur in the future.
> The changes looks okay to me. Also just to mention that I've seen this with
> jdk8 too, but only with -concurrency where the tests are running concurrently
> in different agent VMs to speed up the execution. It's very intermittent and
> hopefully the underlying issue in jtreg has be resolved soon.

The problem occurs when a test with the "wrong" class order for @build gets run 
first, after which it spoils a bunch of subsequent tests. If a "good" test is 
run first the rest of the run is fine. When run without -concurrency the first 
test in jdk8 is good, so we don't see the problem. But with -concurrency I can 
easily see that a "bad" test runs first -- but only sometimes -- which then 
causes the problem.

s'marks