RFR: 8311990: Two JDI tests may interfere with each other [v2]

[David Holmes]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 20:11:03 GMT, Alex Menkov <amenkov at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> "Attach fails" scenarios (debuggee starts listening and debugger is expected to fail trying to attach) sometimes interfere with other JDI tests (so JdwpNetProps.java test or other JDI test or both fail).
>> The fix disables the scenarios to remove noise in the CI.
>
> Alex Menkov has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   add sys.prop to enable negative testing

test/jdk/com/sun/jdi/JdwpListenTest.java line 54:

> 52:     // It's off by default as it causes test time increase and test interference (see JDK-8231915).
> 53:     private static boolean allowNegativeTesting =
> 54:         "true".equalsIgnoreCase(System.getProperty("JDI_ALLOW_NEGATIVE_TESTING"));

That seems a strange name for a system property - it would normally be something like jdk.jdi.allowNegativeTesting. Is this style of naming being used elsewhere?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20362#discussion_r1698399300