Re: [jira] Commented: (RIVER-301) Move the tests into the JUnit framework inside the main source project

[Peter Firmstone <ji...@zeus.net.au>]

Jonathan Costers (JIRA) wrote:
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> Jonathan Costers commented on RIVER-301:
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> Excellent! Glad it works.
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> Running some of the categories takes a while, others take ages to complete .. No wonder Sun created a full blown distributed test harness for running these tests :-) This alone could be a separate Apache project :-D
> I'm running the 'discoverymanager' category right now, I know this one takes hours on my machine.
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> I'm pretty sure there are some loose ends here and there, since porting the GNUMake files was a huge manual and repetitive task. But, I've been running lots of categories and only few errors occur. I'm trying to fix them as they come along.
> I've checked most of the JAR files off to a build of river/qatests/trunk using make, and they seem to contain the same class files and resources.. But I'll most likely have missed some things.
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> I believe this can contribute to some new dynamic on this project. I see people are introducing a ClassDep alternative with acceptable licensing .. well these Ant files sure are a nice test for it :-) They have a zillion ClassDep instantiations in there!
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> Best
> Jonathan
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Thanks for the tip, nice work ;)

Cheers,

Peter.

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>> Move the tests into the JUnit framework inside the main source project
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>>                 Key: RIVER-301
>>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RIVER-301
>>             Project: River
>>          Issue Type: Task
>>          Components: other
>>    Affects Versions: AR3
>>            Reporter: Tom Hobbs
>>         Attachments: integrationtest.xml, RIVER-301.patch, RIVER-301.patch, River-301.patch.zip, River-build-qa5.patch
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>>   Original Estimate: 672h
>>  Remaining Estimate: 672h
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>> The tests donated by SUN live in their own source project and are runnable in a format that is unfriendly towards IDEs and new developers to the River project.
>> This is the proposal to move the test code, mostly unmodified, into the main source directory whilst shoe-horning it into JUnit 3.  This will allow it to be easily viewable and runnable.  Such a structure will also reduce the code-compile-test cycle since no JARs will have to be created in the middle of the cycle and no long command-line incantations.
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