RFR: 8006164 [TESTBUG] compact profile hotspot test issues

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Thank you, David

For me it looks odd when you specify group as not other flags, like:

-group:compact1

Why it was designed this way?

Can ou add jprt group too (as template for now)? We want for long time 
to run in JPRT small subset of our jtreg tests which will take less 
15min. I know, it is separate problem but can you add it as template 
which we can use and extend later?

Thanks,
Vladimir

On 8/25/13 6:45 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> This change introduces the TEST.groups file to allow jtreg to run
> regression tests by groups - where the groups are defined to support
> testing of compact profiles and the minimal VM.
>
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8006164/webrev/
>
> The primary groups are:
>   - jdk
>   - jre
>   - compact3
>   - compact2
>   - compact2_minimal
>   - compact1
>   - compact1_minimal
>
> The minimal VM is only supported on compact1 and compact2.
>
> To select a group of tests you use :<group-name>
>
> Eg to run only those tests that can run on compact1 use:
>
> jtreg :compact1
>
> Of course you still need to point jtreg at the right kind of runtime
> image (and give it a full JDK as the compile-jdk!); and if testing the
> minimal VM you need to tell jtreg to select it using -javaoptions:-minimal
>
> The full jtreg group facility is only available in the most recent jtreg
> builds, so you will need to grab the latest nightly build, or latest
> sources.
>
> It is expected that these group definitions will need some tweaking. So
> far testing has been limited to linux, but we want to get this in ASAP
> to extend the testing.
>
> Note: once this is in place, anyone writing regression tests will need
> to be aware of whether that test is limited to certain profiles and
> update the group file accordingly. Sometimes it is not the item being
> tested that determines the minimum needed profile, but the test
> infrastructure eg if it uses XML.
>
> The changeset will be pushed via hotspot-embas that is what is used for
> profile testing.
>
> Thanks,
> David