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

[Rémi Forax]

On 03/30/2012 07:38 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
>> 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.
>

just pedantically, TestNG was written after JUnit3 but before JUnit4, 
i.e before JUnit uses annotations,
so JUnit4 inherits from a lot of ideas of TestNG too.

Rémi