RE: [Bug 377] Changed - Convert regexp test suite to JUnit BugRat Report#667

[Michael McCallum <mi...@spinsoftware.com>]

On Friday 23 Feburary 08:18 NZDT, Paul Holser wrote:
> to be frank, when i went to post this via bugzilla, i don't
> think "regexp" was a valid assignee.  maybe i'm mistaken.
> anyhow, i just thought i'd be cool to make this known somewhere,
> so to "ant" it went.
Fair enough
There should be a bug db entry for regexp. 
Will ask about that as well? :)

> 
> my motivation was simply to promulgate JUnit usage.  there are
> probably a zillion software packages out there each tested with
> custom harnesses.  JUnit seemed a good replacement for what was
> there.
 I completely agree with the test harness issue.

> 
> i agree, wrapping this with ant somehow sounds like a good plan.
> i'd made an initial stab at just having a JUnit suite that read
> the "RETest.txt" file in the regexp test stuff that was there
> and on the fly constructed JUnit tests for RE.match().  there's
> room for improvement, to be sure.
Send the patch.
> 

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