RFR (XS): 8068540 - [TESTBUG] Exclude failing nightly tests

[David Holmes]

On 7/01/2015 9:40 AM, Christian Tornqvist wrote:
> Hi Coleen and George,
>
> @Coleen: They fail because one of our internal platforms doesn't support the full feature set of NMT.

Excluding them completely reduces test coverage. We do we need to 
exclude them? They simply turn up as known failures (of which there are 
dozens).

??

David


> @George: The change looks good.
>
> Thanks,
> Christian
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hotspot-dev [mailto:hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Coleen Phillimore
> Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 3:53 PM
> To: hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Re: RFR (XS): 8068540 - [TESTBUG] Exclude failing nightly tests
>
>
> Why are these tests failing?  The bug is not helpful.
> Thanks,
> Coleen
>
> On 1/6/15, 3:49 PM, George Triantafillou wrote:
>> Please review this small fix for JDK-8068540.  The tests were modified
>> with the "@ignore" jtreg tag to exclude them from nightly testing.
>>
>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8068540
>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gtriantafill/8068540/webrev.00/
>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Egtriantafill/8068540/webrev.00/>
>>
>> The fix was tested locally on Linux with jtreg and the JPRT hotspot
>> testset.
>>
>> -George
>
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