RFR (S): 8006413: Add utility classes for writing better multiprocess tests in jtreg

[Christian Törnqvist]

Hi Dmitry,

> 1. I'm second to Coleen. Is it possible to add more comments explaining how to use this tools.

My intention is to write a detailed guide to writing jtreg tests, including the use of these (and future) utility classes. 

> 2. Is it possible to create your own exception rather than use Exceptioin class directly.

I've changed it to use RuntimeException based on feedback from other people

> 3. Who is responsible to kill started process?

This is really a task for the jtreg framework. Honestly it doesn't really do this very well right now, since the process handling in Java is not good enough to deal with this. I think this is a something we should look into addressing in jtreg rather than having the tests worry about it.

Best regards,
Christian

-----Original Message-----
From: Dmitry Samersoff 
Sent: den 17 januari 2013 14:14
To: Coleen Phillimore
Cc: hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: RFR (S): 8006413: Add utility classes for writing better multiprocess tests in jtreg

Christian,

1. I'm second to Coleen. Is it possible to add more comments explaining how to use this tools.


2. Is it possible to create your own exception rather than use Exceptioin class directly.


3. Who is responsible to kill started process?

-Dmitry


On 2013-01-16 17:53, Coleen Phillimore wrote:
> 
> Christian,
> Can you write up (somewhere!) what these are for and how these are going
> to be used?  I don't understand just from this code.   Does jtreg know
> enough to build these classfiles?   Do we have to write shell scripts to
> refer to these?
> Thanks,
> Coleen
> 
> On 1/16/2013 7:34 AM, Christian Törnqvist wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>  
>> This RFE adds a few utility classes to make it a bit easier to write 
>> multi-process tests in jtreg, webrev can be found at 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8006413/webrev.00/
>>
>>  
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Christian


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