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Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:40:20 +0800
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Subject: Re: [classlib] Testing conventions - a proposal
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Alex Blewitt wrote:
> On 06/07/06, Richard Liang <richard.liangyx@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> George Harley wrote:
>> > A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that the TestNG framework [2] seemed
>> > like a reasonably good way of allowing us to both group together
>> > different kinds of tests and permit the exclusion of individual
>> > tests/groups of tests [3]. I would like to strongly propose that we
>> > consider using TestNG as a means of providing the different test
>> > configurations required by Harmony.
>>
>> Will try to study TestNG before I can give comment ;-)
>
> I'd strongly recommend TestNG for this purpose, too. It's possible to
> have a limiteless set of annotations for TestNG as well as allowing
> different (sub)sets of those tests to be run. You can also set up
> dependencies between stages (e.g. to test sockets, you've got to test
> the IO ones first) as well as allowing re-running of just failed tests
> from the command line (a test run can output markers as to which tests
> passed/failed, and then on subsequent runs just re-run the failing
> tests).
>
> It would also solve a lot of the problems that we've been seeing for
> OS-specific issues; you can mark a test only to be run on Windows, or
> on Linux etc.
>
> the best thing is that all of these annotations can be combined in
> whatever ways that you want -- as opposed to a directory-based
> approach, which is hierarchical and thus not easy to split based on OS
> or enviornment alone without an exponetial explosion in the possible
> combinations.
Hello Alex,

It seems that you're very familiar with TestNG.  ;-) So would you please 
identify what we shall do to transfer from junit to TestNG? Thanks a lot.

>
> Alex.
>
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Richard Liang
China Software Development Lab, IBM 


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