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Re: big questions

From: Igor Minar <iiminar_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:39:59 +0200

1) 1.5 is EOLed, so as far as I'm concerned, I'll never use it any new
(or existing) production environment.
2) scalatest is an interesting option to explore as well. Both testng
and scalatest provide a way to run tests in parallel which would
considerably cut down on the duration of the test suite (some tests
would need to be reworked to allow this)
http://www.sonatype.com/books/mhandbook/reference/ch07s06.html

/i

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Justin Lee <justin.d.lee_at_oracle.com> wrote:
> OK.  So i have some questions for everyone.  We dont have to answer them
> now, but perhaps at next week's tech meeting if us Oracle types are not tied
> up in planning meetings next week.
>
> Given that the tests don't run successfully on 1.5 for some strange reason,
> do we want to maintain 1.5 compatibility for the 1.9 branch?  I'm currently
> running a release on a 1.6 VM and targetting the 1.5 byte code.  While this
> generates (hopefully) 1.5 compliant byte code, it doesn't really catch when
> we use 1.6 only classes like I did in websockets.  If everyone still needs
> 1.5 compatbility I guess we can hobble along like this.  I know we talked
> about that a while back but it's still a burr in my saddle so to speak that
> we have to jump through hoops like this.  If we stay with 1.5, we need to
> figure out why the tests crash on a 1.5 VM.
> Does anyone have any objections to me migrating our tests from junit to
> testng?  I much prefer testng and we get quite a bit more control and
> features for very little effort.  This is probably the least contentious of
> the two but I wanted to throw that out there.
>
> Thoughts?
>