JTreg upwards compatibility?

[Jonathan Gibbons]

martin,

Can you elaborate a bit more on the issues you are seeing?
Are they due to changes in jtreg itself, or for example, changes
in the recommended libraries, like TestNG and JUnit?

Can you point to JBS issues or changesets where tests have
had to be updated?  I did a quick search through Mercurial
for jdk9/dev and jdk8u/jdk8u for changes to
CustomizedLambdaFormTest, but didn't find anything obvious.

-- Jon


On 05/12/2016 08:30 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> At Google, we try to run latest jtreg releases against jdk7 and jdk8.
> This is generally successful, but on each jtreg upgrade there's a
> handful of tests that start failing, mostly requiring an easy
> backport.  Like most recently CustomizedLambdaFormTest
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Volker Simonis
> <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wanted to ask if JTreg is supposed to be upwards compatible.
>>
>> I.e. should it be possible to run OpenJDK 7 and 8 regression tests
>> with the newest JTreg version?
>>
>> If not, is there a source which describes the required JTreg version
>> for successfully running the regression tests of the various OpenJDK
>> releases? Which JTreg versions is Oracle using for running its OpenJDK
>> 7 and 8 regression tests?
>>
>> Thank you and best regards,
>> Volker