RFR: 8224112: [TESTBUG] java/util/Base64/TestEncodingDecodingLength.java should be skipped with insufficient memory

[Jie Fu]

Okay.

Thank you Aleksey.

On 2019年05月17日 22:30, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> On 5/17/19 4:25 PM, Jie Fu wrote:
>> JBS:    https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8224112
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jiefu/8224112/webrev.00/
>>
>> java/util/Base64/TestEncodingDecodingLength.java may fail due to insufficient memory when our test
>> machine is busy.
>> It might be better to skip it when the available memory is insufficient.
>> Could you please review it and give me some advice?
> I am against special casing like that: it may give you the false sense of passing the test when it
> is actually broken. In other words, having the infrastructure-induced test failure is better than
> having the test that allows bugs to creep in. Get more memory on a test machine, and maybe lobby for
> jtreg to unhoard some [1].
>
> Thanks,
> -Aleksey
>
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/CODETOOLS-7902454
>