RFR: JDK-8007883: Re-enable pack200 tests for jprt testing on fast systems

Kumar Srinivasan kumar.x.srinivasan at oracle.com
Sun Feb 10 16:19:52 UTC 2013


Drat, I made a mistake, sorry!, I used the wrong JBS id for this push, 
to keep it simple
and avoid confusion I will swap the jbs ids, and add some comments in 
jbs as well.

Kumar




> On 2/10/2013 2:55 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 09/02/2013 18:09, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please review the following patch to reinstate pack200 tests for the 
>>> fastest
>>> systems.
>>>
>>> In my testing I also found that launcher's I18NJarTest was failing 
>>> with a known
>>> issue on Macs, so I have taken the opportunity to add this as well.
>> The change looks okay to me, although for the pack200 tests then I 
>> assume the issue is really just old sparc machines that refuse to die 
>> and so continue to be used for testing. In that case, then maybe the 
>> exclude should be just for solaris-sparc and solaris-sparcv9. I guess 
>> you've probably thought about that already and that once the tests 
>> are running on at least one of two platforms it means you get the 
>> test coverage that it needed here.
>
> Thanks Alan for looking at this.
>
> Right, for a sanity check , one platform should suffice. I went for 
> the bonus point and
> added windows (32/64) as well, to err on the side of safety.
>
> Kumar
>
>>
>> -Alan.
>




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