+1.
@Platform is the specified annotation or is the annotation used in junit4?
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Nathan Beyer <ndbe...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Charles Lee <littlee1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's great. But most old test case is in JUnit 3.8 style. We can follow
> > the latest junit when we add the new test cases. What about the old ones?
>
> We've been using JUnit 4 runners for a long time now. JUnit 4 style
> tests could be added at any time and will run perfectly fine with the
> other JUnit 3.8 style tests. The runner/launcher would have to be
> customized to handle this stuff I'm proposing, but we'd continue to
> run both styles of tests.
>
> -Nathan
>
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Nathan Beyer <ndbe...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I've been experimenting with JUnit4 extensions in an attempt to find a
> >> more simple approach to our basic testing needs. The two major
> >> requirements that I see in Harmony's test infrastructure (at least the
> >> classlib stuff) are - exclusions and platform-specific tests. (I'm
> >> ignoring the bootstrap-classpath stuff for now.) To handle these
> >> today, we have exclusion files, which are loaded and used to exclude
> >> certain files and then we branch the test folders by platform. Each
> >> of these has issues - exclusions are skipping whole files, not just
> >> specific failing tests; exclusions aren't well reported on; test files
> >> in multiple branches can have duplicate code, etc.
> >>
> >> One concept I've been working with is using annotations to describe
> >> the tests for the purposes of exclusions and for platform definition.
> >> The annotations can then be utilized in many ways via JUnit - method
> >> rules, request processing filters and others. Here's an example of how
> >> the tests might look.
> >>
> >> class FileTest {
> >> @Test
> >> @Platform(os="windows")
> >> public void testSomethingOnWindows { }
> >>
> >> @Test
> >> @Platform(os="linux", arch="x86_64")
> >> public void testSomethingOnLinuxX86_64 {}
> >>
> >> @Test
> >> @Exclude(os="windows",vm="drlvm")
> >> public void testSomethingExcludedOnWindowsDRLVM {}
> >> }
> >>
> >> Thoughts? Comments?
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Yours sincerely,
> > Charles Lee
> >
>
--
Yours sincerely,
Charles Lee
