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

[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.