TestNG tests appear to hang with latest lambda

[Jonathan Gibbons]

My understanding is that TestNG does not scale well with too many test 
cases,
and folk are just testing stuff "too much" these days :-)

-- Jon

On 02/20/2013 01:27 PM, Ben Evans wrote:
> OK, following up to my own mail.
>
> The tests will actually complete if left for long enough, but the
> process gets *huge* - at least 2.8G in size, and if other processes
> are running, it will take a very long time to complete.
>
> Does anyone have any insight as to why the tests consume so much memory?
>
> Ben
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Ben Evans
> <benjamin.john.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm writing some docs for AdoptOpenJDK about getting started writing
>> TestNG tests, in advance of the hackdays at Devoxx UK.
>>
>> However, with latest lambda, the TestNG tests appear to hang (output
>> below). The process grows in size to over 1Gb, and then appears to
>> freeze. It's still responsive (so I can connect jvisualvm to it, but
>> when I sample the code, nothing appears to be running).
>>
>> This is on Mac 10.7 with OpenJDK 8 from current lambda.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ben
>>
>> ariel:test-ng boxcat$ ant test
>> Buildfile: /Users/boxcat/projects/lambda/jdk/test-ng/build.xml
>>
>> prepare:
>>
>> test-compile:
>>      [javac] /Users/boxcat/projects/lambda/jdk/test-ng/build.xml:78:
>> warning: 'includeantruntime' was not set, defaulting to
>> build.sysclasspath=last; set to false for repeatable builds
>>      [javac] /Users/boxcat/projects/lambda/jdk/test-ng/build.xml:82:
>> warning: 'includeantruntime' was not set, defaulting to
>> build.sysclasspath=last; set to false for repeatable builds
>>      [javac] /Users/boxcat/projects/lambda/jdk/test-ng/build.xml:86:
>> warning: 'includeantruntime' was not set, defaulting to
>> build.sysclasspath=last; set to false for repeatable builds
>>
>> test:
>>       [echo] Results at: file:../../build/test-ng/test-reports/index.html
>>     [testng] [TestNG] Running:
>>     [testng]   Ant suite
>>     [testng]
>>     [testng]
>>     [testng] Generating exhaustive interface....
>>     [testng]       8 No default
>>     [testng]       8 Error
>>     [testng]      48 OK
>>     [testng]      64 Total
>>     [testng]
>>     [testng] Generating exhaustive class....
>>     [testng]     729 No default
>>     [testng]      49 Error
>>     [testng]     950 OK
>>     [testng]    1728 Total
>>     [testng]
>>     [testng] Generating shapes interface....
>>     [testng]     109 No default
>>     [testng]     280 Error
>>     [testng]     507 OK
>>     [testng]     896 Total
>>     [testng]
>>     [testng] Generating shapes class/interface....
>>     [testng]     190 No default
>>     [testng]     568 Error
>>     [testng]     536 OK
>>     [testng]    1294 Total
>>     [testng]
>>     [testng] Expect OK:    2041 -- unique 1813
>>     [testng] Expect Error: 905 -- unique 773
>>     [testng]
>>     [testng] Generating exhaustive interface....
>>     [testng]       8 No default
>>     [testng]       8 Error
>>     [testng]      48 OK
>>     [testng]      64 Total
>>     [testng]
>>     [testng] Generating exhaustive class....
>>     [testng]     729 No default
>>     [testng]      49 Error
>>     [testng]     950 OK
>>     [testng]    1728 Total
>>     [testng]
>>     [testng] Generating shapes interface....
>>     [testng]     109 No default
>>     [testng]     280 Error
>>     [testng]     507 OK
>>     [testng]     896 Total
>>     [testng]
>>     [testng] Generating shapes class/interface....
>>     [testng]     190 No default
>>     [testng]     568 Error
>>     [testng]     536 OK
>>     [testng]    1294 Total
>>     [testng]
>>     [testng] Expect OK:    2041 -- unique 1813
>>     [testng] Expect Error: 905 -- unique 773