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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:15:39 -0700
From: Rick Hillegas <Richard.Hillegas@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: [jira] Commented: (DERBY-516) Need to incorporate client
 backward/forward  compatibility testing into testing procedures.
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Hi Myrna,

Thanks for your comments. I'll roll your suggestions into the next rev 
of this test, after the current patch is committed. Responses follow. 
Cheers-Rick

Myrna van Lunteren (JIRA) wrote:

>    [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-516?page=comments#action_12356026 ] 
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>Myrna van Lunteren commented on DERBY-516:
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>I would suggest a little helpful addition in java/testing/README.html with a link to the current junit hosting site. 
>(like how the reference to jakarta-oro* is done)
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OK.

>I would suggest also Building.txt to have specify that junit.jar is needed to build and run, so instead of what you have currently:
>"JUnit is needed for some of Derby's tests" I suggest:
>"JUnit is needed to build and run some of Derby's tests"
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OK.

>I have tested derbynetmats, and tested jdbcapi/CompatibilityTest.java separately with -Dframework=DerbyNet and =DerbyNetClient and that seems to work fine. And I was using jdk142.
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Thanks.

>Can you explain the need for jdk15 (according to the projecthelp)? Maybe I missed this...
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1.5 is just one of Derby's supported platforms. Since some Derby jdbc 
behavior is vm-specific, I want to make sure we cover the 1.5 vm along 
with 1.3 and 1.4.

>Finally some meanderings:
>I have been wondering about the name of the test - CompatibilityTest just seemed a little generic, but I have no better alternative. :-)
>Also wondered whether we should add something about junit.jar to the web page http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html#Software+required+to+build+Derby
>but as it's only required to for the ant all target, not the default target, I can accept the current structure too. :-)
>Finally I also wondered if maybe these tests ought to be not under org/apache/derbyTesting/functionTests/tests/compatibility, but under org/apache/derbyTesting/JUnitTests/compatibility...
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I don't have strong religion about these points either. Concerning the 
last issue: I agree that a JUnitTests fork in the tree might help us 
track which of our existing tests we've migrated under JUnit.

>Myrna
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