Have you looked at the com/sun/jdi test framework? The java framework is quite good and stable. The shell script framework should be removed.
/Staffan > On 27 jan. 2016, at 13:02, Dmitry Samersoff <dmitry.samers...@oracle.com> > wrote: > > Staffan, > > 1. This is one more small step forward to remove wide variety of > Exit0.java (and similar) programs from jdk tests. > > I will not happen today, but I hope, sometimes in a future, all tests > that launch a child process will do it the same way. > > 2. We have couple of old SA-JDI tests in jdk.hotspot.agent/test these > tests have to be cleaned up and ported to JTREG, we need a framework to > do it. > > 3. It's hard to debug JDI failures that comes from nightly without small > standalone reproducer. Especially if emulator or slow hardware is involved. > > I use this class as a base for such reproducer, find it helpful, and > would like to have it in the test library. > > -Dmitry > > > On 2016-01-27 10:23, Staffan Larsen wrote: >> Can you explain more? There is very little information here or in the >> bug about what problem you are trying to solve. Why aren’t the >> current JDI tests (jdk/test/com/sun/jdi) sufficient? I have not read >> your code, and I would like more background before I do so. >> >>> On 26 jan. 2016, at 22:53, Dmitry Samersoff >>> <dmitry.samers...@oracle.com> wrote: >>> >>> Everybody, >>> >>> Please review an RFE >>> >>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dsamersoff/JDK-8148315/webrev.01/ >>> >>> This fix adds basic LingeredApp based reproducer (and template for >>> more sophisticated reproducers) to debug JDI and underlying JVMTI >>> issues. >>> >>> -Dmitry >>> >>> -- Dmitry Samersoff Oracle Java development team, Saint Petersburg, >>> Russia * I would love to change the world, but they won't give me >>> the sources. >> > > > -- > Dmitry Samersoff > Oracle Java development team, Saint Petersburg, Russia > * I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the sources.