[7u] review and approval request for 8007515: update RMI tests on ProblemList.txt

[Darryl Mocek]

Stuart,

    is jdk-regtest at sun.com still a valid email address?

Darryl

On 02/11/2013 03:02 PM, Stuart Marks wrote:
> On 2/9/13 7:49 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 09/02/2013 00:51, Stuart Marks wrote:
>>> A simple request for code review *and* integration approval for the 
>>> following
>>> bugfix:
>>>
>>>     http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8007515
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smarks/reviews/8007515/webrev.0/
>>>
>>> Now that all the RMI test fixes have been backported, this 
>>> reconciles the
>>> ProblemList.txt file between jdk8 and jdk7u so that the same RMI 
>>> tests are
>>> excluded on each release. This ends up removing a few dozen RMI 
>>> tests from
>>> the jdk7u problem list, leaving just four.
>>>
>> This looks fine to me. While you are there, would you mind adding the 
>> RMI
>> directories to the othervm.dirs and exclusiveAccess.dirs list in 
>> TEST.ROOT?
>> That way folks can run jtreg -agentvm without needing to special-case 
>> the RMI
>> tests. I actually think we should just copy TEST.ROOT from jdk8 to 
>> jdk7u-dev
>> but that could be another bug as it is not specific to RMI.
>
> I thought about dealing with TEST.ROOT in a separate bug but that just 
> seems like busy-work. Updating the problem list is at least as much 
> about making sure that the testing configurations between jdk8 and 
> jdk7u are brought closer together as much as it is about RMI, so 
> updating TEST.ROOT is part of that.
>
> I've refreshed jdk7u's TEST.ROOT from jdk8's and adjusted the bug 
> accordingly.
>
> Here's the webrev:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~smarks/reviews/8007515/webrev.1/
>
> s'marks