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

[Nils Loodin]

On 01/17/2013 03:10 PM, Christian Törnqvist wrote:
> Well, jtreg is not in the hotspot repo (and shouldn't be) and suddenly you end up having an external dependency. I'd like to keep the tests free from dependence on jtreg (along with other external resources).
>
> Thanks,
> Christian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitry Samersoff
> Sent: den 17 januari 2013 15:06
> To: Christian Törnqvist
> Cc: Stuart Marks; hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net; Jonathan Gibbons
> Subject: Re: RFR (S): 8006413: Add utility classes for writing better multiprocess tests in jtreg
>
> Christian,
>
> On my opinion something like
>
> import com.oracle.jtreg.tools.*
>
> is less painful than maintain several independent implementations of the same ideas.
>
> -Dmitry
>

I fully agree with Christian here. Dmitry, you have to see the pain from 
the people who are debugging the tests here, not the one implementing. 
The thresholds for rerunning / modifying / debugging tests will be very 
very much increased when introducing such dependencies!

Regards,
Nils Loodin