Unit Test of standard lib

Semyon Sadetsky semyon.sadetsky at oracle.com
Wed Oct 26 21:36:47 UTC 2016


On 10/26/2016 11:43 PM, Abdessamed MANSOURI wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I was looking about how Java do unit tests of its standard library and i've
> found in the code source of OpenJDK unit tests under test folder, my
> question is why Java uses direct unit tests (using main) and it doesn't use
> a powerfull framework as JUnit? i think it is possible to use it because
> unit tests of standard lib are already written in Java.
>
There may be license incompatibility.

In general GPL v2 (OpenJDK) is not compatible with EPL (JUnit) and 
Apache 2.0 (TestNG).

--Semyon



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