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Re: A place for the Classpath specific tests
- From: Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx dot de>
- To: Meskauskas Audrius <audriusa at bluewin dot ch>
- Cc: mauve-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:05:10 +0100
- Subject: Re: A place for the Classpath specific tests
- References: <000701c5257c$0afc0c70$2101a8c0@computername>
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:18:33PM +0100, Meskauskas Audrius wrote:
> For a project as large as Classpath, it would be good to
> have a tests for all important classes. Apart the standard
> java.* and javax.* , this also includes the Classpath
> specific classes from gnu.* namespace. In some
> packages this namespace contains many classes,
> having hundreds lines of the working code. Even it they run ok today, staying without tests leaves a gap for
> the future regression bugs. It is not immediatly clear if such tests can be contributed to
> Mauve. With such tests the Mauve would not compile
> without the newest version of Classpath. Classpath has its own small test suite. While not very popular
> and requiring to write all tests in the form of the executable
> classes, it could be treated as an alternative.
>
> Before committing Classpath specific tests to Mauve, I would
> like to discuss this question in the list.
We should really put the tests in muave. Into a specific CVS module if
needed/wanted. We have already classpath specific tests in Mauve. If we
consider an extra module is need then we should move them into it.
Michael
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