[jira] [Resolved] (DERBY-4808) write a test that checks that optional packages are in place and clearly exposes when this is not the case

["Myrna van Lunteren (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4808?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Myrna van Lunteren resolved DERBY-4808.
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          Resolution: Fixed
       Fix Version/s: 10.11.0.0
    Issue & fix info:   (was: Patch Available)

Resolving issue; modified test seems to work fine.

> write a test that checks that optional packages are in place and clearly exposes when this is not the case
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>                 Key: DERBY-4808
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4808
>             Project: Derby
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Test
>            Reporter: Myrna van Lunteren
>            Assignee: Myrna van Lunteren
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 10.11.0.0
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>         Attachments: DERBY-4808.diff
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> Our junit tests are written in such a way that we avoid false failures because of absence of optional pieces of software.
> This is convenient when developers want to do a 'quick' test run. 
> However, it's not so good when we think we're running with all optional pieces in place, but something's (gone) missing; we'll not see it and it may go unnoticed for a long time. We should get warned about missing pieces when we want *all* tests to run.
> One suggestion was to put some kind of check in the test org.apache.derbyTesting.junit.EnvTest.



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