RFR: 8024140: [TESTBUG] Profile based regression test groups for jdk repo

[David Holmes]

On 3/09/2013 11:12 PM, roger riggs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are going to be some gaps in compact1 testing if TestNG tests
> are omitted.  For example, all of java.time uses TestNg exclusively.

Yes I noticed. :(

> The java.time tests do not use the XML input file configuration options
> so perhaps the dependency on XML can be broken.

If the java.time folk can do that that is great, but they are not alone 
as a lot of the new lambda related tests also use testng.

David

> Roger
>
> On 9/3/2013 4:26 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>>
>>
>>> As regards the definitions then one observation is the TestNG tests that
>>> you've listed in needs_compact2 are actually compact1 tests. I wonder if
>>> this is a TestNG dependency on XML rather than dependencies in the test
>>> themselves.
>>
>> Yes. As noted in the file the dependencies are not only what is being
>> tested but what test infrastructure is being used. The testng tests
>> uses xml which restricts them to compact2. Some tests use jps/jcmd or
>> tools.jar which restricts them to a full jdk.
>