Unit tests for OpenJDK?

[Harry Simons]

Hi Mario,

The JCK link on the JavaTestSuite page is apparently hitting the wrong
page, looks like Oracle has either moved or removed it.

I didn't know about Mauve, will definitely check it out.

Thanks a lot!

Regards,
/HS



On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi Harry,
>
> The JCK is a bit funny, you can have access to it, but how I let other to
> say :) and yes, its a complicated process.
>
> Some test are in the JDK tree, but you may find helpful to run non
> official test suites like mauve.
>
> Interestingly, the winehq page seems to do a better job than the OpenJDK
> wiki in listing the options:
>
> http://wiki.winehq.org/JavaTestSuite
>
> Mauve covers a lot of areas very well, I believe the filesystem is one of
> those.
>
> Of course, I totally understand your pain, we have the same problem, and
> the only way to be 100% is to apply for the JCK.
>
> Cheers,
> Mario
>  Il 27/apr/2014 12:18 "Harry Simons" <simonsharry at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
> Thanks for your response.
>>
>> Looks like, without a formal form-submission and form-approval process I
>> will not be given JCK.
>>
>> May I ask the members in the community that without free and easy access
>> to
>> JCK to one and all, how on earth could an applications developer (like
>> myself) possibly ever finish writing (complete with unit testing!) a
>> custom
>> file-system based on the FileSystemProvider API which Java itself
>> provides?
>>
>> If not the full JCK, I think the powers-that-be should provide to all
>> application developers, freely and easily, at least a subset of the JCK
>> that covers nontrivial API such as FileSystemProvider!
>>
>> Wonder, how other developers like myself would handle this situation.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On 04/27/2014 09:55 AM, Harry Simons wrote:
>> >
>> > > I downloaded OpenJDK 7u40 source bundle, and was expecting to find in
>> it
>> > > tons and tons of unit tests for, well, at least all public methods of
>> all
>> > > of its public classes.
>> > >
>> > > However, under the openjdk/jdk/test/ directory of the downloaded
>> bundle,
>> > > are sitting merely *regression* tests -- or, tests created for
>> *specific*
>> > > bugs.
>> > >
>> > > I'd like to know if OpenJDK comes with its unit tests or not? And, if
>> > yes,
>> > > where can I find them? If not, why are they not being shared openly.
>> >
>> > Because the JCK is shipped separately.
>> >
>> > http://openjdk.java.net/groups/conformance/JckAccess/
>> >
>> > Andrew.
>> >
>> >
>>
>