Hi, We've agreed that we should not have 'false' failures in our test runs for 'optional' pieces of software. So we've either let skip quietly, or only with some warning message to the output. I've been thinking of ways to check and warn that pieces are missing.
One way I can think of doing this, is to have a test suite sitting on top of (i.e. calling) functionTests.suites.All, which would fail if various optional pieces aren't in place. I'm thinking of a test that would check that encryption software, xalan (xml) support, and the like are in place - and this can be manipulated to show what we expect for various jvms, for instance. That way, if you *think* you have all "optional" pieces in place, you can run the higher level suite, and be automatically warned if something's missing without having to manually verify the output, but if you don't care about the optional pieces, or know you don't have all, you can run suites.All. Does anyone have any other ideas? Thanks, Myrna
