<Swing Dev> Whither Swing Regression Tests

[Brian Beck]

Over on the discuss forum, Dave Gilbert wrote:

 > I've got a fix for a bug in Swing (bug 6463712, related to the JSpinner
 > component) and have written a regression test that can be run using
 > jtreg.  Now I'm looking to run some other regression tests to validate
 > my fix before submitting a patch.  My understanding is that the
 > available regression tests are in the OpenJDK source bundle in the
 > 'j2se/test' directory...but there is nothing there for 'javax.swing.*'. 
 > Elsewhere (on the 2d-dev list) Phil Race said:
 > > Regression tests - these are in the JDK under test but we are required
 > > to vet them almost one by one to verify their provenance and this is
 > > onerous. So most are not there yet.
 > Is there a plan for getting these tests out?  Just asking for
 > information, I know you're busy...
 >

What Phil Race said was exactly the case.  We didn't have time to get 
all our regression tests opened up before the OpenJDK launch.  We are, 
however, in the process of doing it.  The first thing that you're likely 
to see is some infrastructure that all of our (Swing) tests require to 
run.  After that's available we will pump out the actual tests as fast 
as we can.

We'll post more information to this list when we have a better idea of 
when things might be available.   Hope you understand.

Brian.