On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Chris Hostetter <[email protected]>wrote:
> > (too bad actually ... i wasn't worried about tests that weren't thread > safe as much as tests of code that wasn't thread safe, in which case > reusing the same JVM would actually be helpful ... for trying to break > code i mean) > > well, I agree with you on the breaking code aspect, but threads at the moment would mostly bring up problems the test frameworks themselves (such as the static 'h' TestHarness). Also, quite a few tests would be tricky to make thread safe, since they must temporarily modify statics (e.g. BooleanQuery maxClauseCount) -- Robert Muir [email protected]
