RFR 8049834: Two security tools tests do not run with only JRE

[Wang Weijun]

On Jul 21, 2014, at 20:24, Sean Mullan <sean.mullan at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 07/21/2014 08:19 AM, Wang Weijun wrote:
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>> On Jul 21, 2014, at 20:11, Sean Mullan <sean.mullan at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> This looks fine to me, but I was wondering why you needed to do this - are there requirements to run some regression tests with just the JRE instead of the full JDK?
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>> The embedded team has the requirement. They've already spotted several tests in jdk8 having the problem. These 2 tests are new in jdk9 and I think they will run into it one day.
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> How are they doing this? How do they know to not run the jarsigner tests? Are they identifying and then creating separate jtreg groups for tests that run with the JRE only? It seems like there should be a new jtreg tag or something like that which specifies if a test can run with the JRE only; otherwise this seems like it will be hard to maintain over time.

test/TEST.groups has a group named needs_jdk which includes sun/security/tools/jarsigner. These test are not run when testing jre.

In fact, it should be called test_jdk because as long as a test is not testing jdk itself and jdk is only used in preparing testing materials, we can use -compilejdk to provide a good-old-jdk to prepare them. In this sense, -compilejdk should also probably be renamed to -goodoldjdk (CCing Jon). :-)

--Max

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> --Sean