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

[Martijn Verburg]

> On 3 December 2011 11:34, Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Hi Mario,

Thanks for that - I'll look up how to write/run jtreg tests -
should've figured there was something like that in the first place, a
well you live and learn :-)

Cheers,
Martijn