test with a 3rd party jar file?

[Rob McKenna]

Some interesting conversations were had lately about shell scripts 
during Joe Darcy's recent infrastructure tech talk. In particular around 
the idea of a "jdk.testing" package to provide libraries that would help 
with the types of operations seen in shell scripts. I'm really hoping to 
spend some time on this myself over the coming weeks. (in an effort to 
at least understand why we need shell scripts and whether we could do 
something else instead)

In any case it should be possible to simply replace the script with a 
java program that does the same thing. That would require fiddling with 
Process however, and its debatable as to whether that would result in 
fewer test failures. (shell scripts counting for a proportionally large 
number of those failures) JSR199 might help to reduce the amount of 
ProcessBuilders required in this instance.

     -Rob

On 24/06/13 20:50, Seán Coffey wrote:
> You should be able to do it with scripts. Mandy designed something 
> similar recently :
>
> http://opengrok.ie.oracle.com:8080/opengrok/xref/jdk7u-cpu/jdk/test/closed/java/util/logging/SystemLoggerTest.sh 
>
>
> In the recent infrastructure meeting, scripts for tests were frowned 
> upon. I don't see any alternative unless jtreg is able to handle this 
> relatively simple (common?) setup request.
>
> regards,
> Sean.
>
>
> On 24/06/13 18:33, huizhe wang wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know if it's possible to automate a test with a 3rd party 
>> jar file on the bootclasspath or java.endorsed.dirs?
>>
>> I have a test that I run manually with Apache Xerces jar.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joe
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject:     [JBS] (JDK-8016773) Regression: diff. behavior with 
>> user-defined SAXParser
>> Date:     Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:04:02 +0000 (UTC)
>> From:     Pavel Stepanov (JBS) <jbs at jbs.oracle.com>
>> To:     huizhe.wang at oracle.com
>>
>>
>>
>> Pavel Stepanov 
>> <https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=pastepan> 
>> commented on Backport JDK-8016773 
>> <https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8016773>
>> *Regression: diff. behavior with user-defined SAXParser* 
>> <https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8016773>
>>
>>
>>
>> so, does this mean it is impossible to write regresion test?
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