How to run tests before pushing a backport changeset?

[Man Cao]

Thanks for the clarifications!


> I would like to see potential fixes pass tiers 1 & 2 of the affected area
> (e.g. hs or jdk) but tier1 is *must* pass.
> (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk9-dev/2015-June/002325.html)


We are somewhat concerned about breaking tests on non-Linux and non-x86_64
systems. We don't have the infrastructure to build and test them.
It seems that there is no easy way to test these before pushing,
unfortunately.

-Man