I have been involving in fixing bugs other teams discovered in the
JAX-WS RI lately, and the lack of easy-to-use test harness is becoming
more and more serious issue.
For one thing, it makes it difficult for people to write tests. With all
respect to everyone, I don't think writing an ant build script for each
test is very productive. It's also very hard to attach a debugger, and
you can't move a test around (so you can't just pass it to someone else,
etc.)
So far, fortunately (for me), Arun has been the primary bug reporter, so
I could just drop by his office and look into the debugger, but when
people in the east coast or India starts to do the same, this won't work
anymore. As a case in point, Venu reported a few problems this morning,
which I had to ask him to send me a test case.
This slows everyone down, and this has been painful to me so much so
that I'm interested in writing a harness by myself. And then I realized
that you mentioned someone is (going to?) working in this area, so I
thought I should contact you first.
Is something like that being worked on by someone else? How far is it
coming along?
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Sun Microsystems kohsuke.kawaguchi_at_sun.com