RFR: 8143038: [TESTBUG] TestOptionsWithRanges: allow excluding only a subset of tested values specified for a flag

[gerard ziemski]

hi Dmitry,

Looks good.

They only feedback I have is that I'm not too crazy about the name "notTest*Range" for API. How about 
"excludeTest*Range" instead?


cheers

On 11/18/2015 02:00 PM, Dmitry Dmitriev wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please review enhancement to the command line option validation test framework.
>
> Currently TestOptionsWithRanges test have several options excluded from testing, because these options with big or small
> values can cause problem with testing(create a huge number of threads or consume too much memory). This enhancement
> added ability to exclude max or min values from testing and TestOptionsWithRanges was corrected to use this enhancement.
>
> Also, in this fix I remove adding negative out-of-range values for the unsigned options, because negative values are
> actual invalid(not out-of-range) values for unsigned options.
>
> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8143038
> webrev.00: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ddmitriev/8143038/webrev.00/
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Eddmitriev/8143038/webrev.00/>
> Testing: tested on all platforms. One of the test was failed on win-64 platform, but this is not relate to this change.
> Filled https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8143249 for that(which seems related to the JDK-8069282)
>
> Thanks,
> Dmitry
>