Tests (Was Warnings Cleanup in java.util.<various> (more from hack day))

[Mario Torre]

Il giorno 03/dic/2011, alle ore 12:27, Martijn Verburg ha scritto:
> Hi all,
> 
> So the recent warnings clean up exercise got me thinking about the
> approach we took and how we could make it safer by applying/running
> tests in some of these areas. I'm very new to the OpenJDK, but I
> figure there must be a suite of tests (for the TCK if nothing else).
> Is that the set of tests that are typically run? Or is there another
> test suite that can be run/added to?
> 
> For example I feel that could/should have written a unit test for the
> write method in the Manifest class that I had my recent brain melt in
> :-)
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> Martijn


Of course, you can write jtreg tests :)

The warning fixes were low risk changes (this is why everyone
was very picky about changing anything but the warnings) and
in many areas the JDK is well tested, so there was no real
reason to write tests for most of it, but this is not generally
true of course. So, to answer your question, yes, you can write
a jtreg test and propose it as companion to your code changes,
this is never a bad idea anyway, just double check that the test
you're going to write doesn't exist already (so you add more, rather
than duplicating it).

Cheers,
Mario

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