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Re: Library/VM tests
- To: mauve <mauve-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: Library/VM tests
- From: Moses DeJong <dejong@cs.umn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:56:33 -0600
On 4 Mar 1999, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Wilkinson <tim@transvirtual.com> writes:
>
> Tim> I have (finally) been looking into integrating our modest
> Tim> testsuite into Mauve but have run up against a problem. So far
> Tim> as I understand things Mauve is designed to test *only* the
> Tim> library functionality. Given this what are we suppose to do
> Tim> about test which sit on the boundary - ClassLoaders spring to
> Tim> mind but there's also such things as Serialization, Reflection
> Tim> and bunch of other borderline stuff. None of this is VM specific
> Tim> of course but it relies on more heavy VM support than some tests
> Tim> (some stuff uses threads for example).
>
> Tim> So my question is - what's the policy on this?
>
> Policy is really for us to decide as a group. The original goal was
> to write a test suite for the class libraries, but I'm beginning to
> think we'd be better off expanding the scope to include VM/runtime
> tests as well. After all, why not? This will only benefit everybody.
>
> I'm not fully clear on all the issues in terms of implementation.
> However, I'm pretty clear on what Cygnus' requirements are in terms of
> functionality. I'd be happy to discuss this with anybody
> contemplating revising Mauve to include more kinds of tests (that is,
> if the test framework needs changing. I don't know whether it does).
>
> Tom
>
I have some tests that fall into this "other" catagory.
I developed some test test cases for the reflection API
for the Kaffe project but I think they really should but added
to the mauve tests. Is this the kind of thing that is not covered
under "libraries" tests?
Mo DeJong
dejong at cs.umn.edu