RFR (M): JDK-8038587: [TESTBUG] Create CDS tests to exercise region sizes and classlist

[Mikhailo Seledtsov]

David,

  Thank you. I will rework ClassListExerciser test to take your comments 
into consideration, and will submit a new webrev.

Misha

On 4/1/2014 9:52 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 2/04/2014 7:06 AM, Mikhailo Seledtsov wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>>   Thank you for review and your feedback.
>>
>> The intent of this test is sanity check of basic functionality, making
>> sure the shared classes are loaded w/o crashes or errors. Even though
>> creating a shared archive with -Xshare:dump does exercise loading of the
>> classes from the classlist, I believe SQE should verify it, by
>> explicitly performing this operation. In my experience I have found that
>> basic tests often find interesting bugs.
>>
>> I did drop the attempt to instantiate classes, because  the amount of
>> classes in the class list that have default constructors and instantiate
>> successfully is quite small, and not worth the trouble. Many classes
>> fail instantiation due to the absence of UI, or other valid reasons.
>
> Okay. Dropping that seems to alleviate most of my concerns.
>
>> What I have found, however, as part of this exercise, is that the
>> default SE classlist is optimized for the client, not the server.
>>
>> As for classes that are part of the classlist, but are really missing
>> from rt.jar: will you consider this to be a bug?
>
> No. The default classlist, as you note is defined for a particular 
> scenario - at the moment "client" apps. But many of those classes are 
> not present in Compact Profiles. So unless/until we have customized 
> default classlists for Compact Profiles, missing classes can be 
> expected. I don't see this as an issue that warrants such customized 
> classlists.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Misha
>>
>>
>> On 4/1/2014 1:46 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>>> Hi Misha,
>>>
>>> On 28/03/2014 5:34 AM, Mikhailo Seledtsov wrote:
>>>> Please review these 3 new CDS tests, an ongoing effort in 
>>>> implementation
>>>> of the CDS test specification.
>>>>
>>>>      JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8038587
>>>>      Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mseledtsov/8038587/webrev.00/
>>>>      Testing:
>>>>          Local testing on multiple platforms
>>>>          JPRT to exercise the added tests:
>>>> 2014-03-27-184953.mseledtsov.cds (PASS)
>>>>          These tests found 2 bugs, and one potential issue
>>>
>>> I don't quite get the point of the ClassListExerciser test. The
>>> classlist may well contain classes that do not exist, or that can not
>>> be instantiated in the test context, even if they have a no-arg
>>> constructor. Simply creating an archive "exercises" the classlist, so
>>> I'm really not sure what this test is intending to test.
>>>
>>> Also this test won't work with SE Embedded as we have a customized
>>> default classlist for the Embedded stack.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Misha
>>