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

[Albert Noll]

So after this change, the tests are not run on platforms although they 
support NMT? If yes, wouldn't it be possible to just not run the test on 
a platforms where NMT is not supported?

Albert


On 01/07/2015 09:57 AM, Jesper Wilhelmsson wrote:
> We are trying to get rid of all known failures so unless the test can 
> be modified to run only on the platforms that support NMT (which is my 
> preferred option), I think it is better to exclude the tests than to 
> let them fail on some platforms on a regular basis.
> /Jesper
>
>
> David Holmes skrev den 7/1/15 02:18:
>> 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
>>>
>>>