modules and tests

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Nov 24 15:41:03 UTC 2016



On 24/11/2016 14:39, Remi Forax wrote:
> :
> to Alan:
> currently you can not get your test framework as a service and you can not declare your test as a provider for a test infrastructure like jenkins (i.e. there is no --uses and --provides).
Fair point, uses/provides can't currently be augmented via the 
command-line but this is only because it hasn't been needed.

>
> to Alan and Sander:
> setting command line arguments or using a build tool to fiddle them for you is exactly what we do not want here! We want fidelity between the compile time configuration and the runtime configuration. Having to play with -Xpatch at runtime is conceptually exactly like setting the classpath. I don't want to explain to the Java devs that we have fidelity between compile-time and runtime on source code but not on test code.
>
I hope in time that there will be support from the tools, plugins, test 
runners ... so that regular developers don't need to be concerned with this.

-Alan


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