RFR: JDK-8007883: Re-enable pack200 tests for jprt testing on fast systems

Kumar Srinivasan kumar.x.srinivasan at oracle.com
Sun Feb 10 16:03:18 UTC 2013


On 2/10/2013 2:55 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 09/02/2013 18:09, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please review the following patch to reinstate pack200 tests for the 
>> fastest
>> systems.
>>
>> In my testing I also found that launcher's I18NJarTest was failing 
>> with a known
>> issue on Macs, so I have taken the opportunity to add this as well.
> The change looks okay to me, although for the pack200 tests then I 
> assume the issue is really just old sparc machines that refuse to die 
> and so continue to be used for testing. In that case, then maybe the 
> exclude should be just for solaris-sparc and solaris-sparcv9. I guess 
> you've probably thought about that already and that once the tests are 
> running on at least one of two platforms it means you get the test 
> coverage that it needed here.

Thanks Alan for looking at this.

Right, for a sanity check , one platform should suffice. I went for the 
bonus point and
added windows (32/64) as well, to err on the side of safety.

Kumar

>
> -Alan.




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