RFR: 8283349 : Robustness improvements to java/util/prefs/AddNodeChangeListener.jar

[Daniel Fuchs]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 17:59:15 GMT, Brent Christian <bchristi at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this change to the java/util/prefs/AddNodeChangeListener.jar test.
> 
> Although the test specifies "-Djava.util.prefs.userRoot=." to ensure a fresh Preferences on each test run, MacOS does not seem to honor this, and still stores prefs in Library/.
> 
> This test has long suffered intermittent failures. 8255031 added some debugging code; as of that change, the test fails fast as soon as an expected change event is not received. In particular, if the expected event is not received for adding the node, the test exits without removing the node. In this way, on Mac, the node can get "stuck" in the preferences of the machine. Future runs on the machine will already have the node, no node added change event will be generated (because the node was already there), the test will continue to fail without removing the node, etc. This matches observations on some CI machines.  
> 
> This change ensures that:
> * the test node is not present before the test
> * the test runs to completion, including removing the test node
> * the test node is not left behind after the test
> 
> Thanks.

I'm not a regular contributor in this area, so maybe wait to see if a second opinion is forthcoming, but otherwise the proposed changes look reasonable to me.

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Marked as reviewed by dfuchs (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7908