Re: back compat testing

[Michael McCandless <lu...@mikemccandless.com>]

I've created this branch (lucene_2_4_back_compat_tests) and fix the  
build
scripts to use that branch.

I haven't removed all but tests cases on the branch yet -- I think we  
don't
actually need to do that?  Ie, nobody should ever checkout that branch  
and
run "ant test" (it's only "ant test-tag" that does it)?

Mike

Michael Busch wrote:

> +1. I think this makes sense.
>
> To get around the problem of testcases being dependent on package- 
> private APIs that change between minor releases, maybe we should  
> *only* have testcases in that branch? Otherwise if we have to make a  
> change to a test to make it compile with an API we changed in trunk  
> it would not compile anymore against the core code in the branch.
>
> -Michael
>
> Michael McCandless wrote:
>>
>> We now run "ant test-tag" in the nightly build, to verify that all
>> unit tests in 2.4.0 still pass, which is awesome.
>>
>> But, for LUCENE-1464, which is ready to commit, there is a bug in
>> TestLockFactory whereby its rmDir method hits an NPE if the directory
>> doesn't exist.  For two testcases that now happens because I fixed
>> FSDir.getDirectory to not create the dir (until createOutput is  
>> called).
>>
>> I think the test should be fixed, and my patch has that fix, but in
>> order to keep using "ant test-tag", I'd like to make a branch and
>> commit the fix for this test onto that branch, and fix "ant test-tag"
>> to checkout that branch.
>>
>> Any objections?  How about the name "branches/ 
>> lucene_2_4_back_compat_tests"?
>>
>> Going forward if we ever need to "fix" tests, I think we commit
>> the fix to that branch at the same time as committing to trunk.
>>
>> Mike
>>
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