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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:58:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: Regression testing and Windows operating systems
From: Jonathan Costers <jonathan.costers@googlemail.com>
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I use a build.properties in the river root directory (where common.xml is
located).
On my Windows machine, it contains:
jtreg.home=C:\\Java\\jtreg-4.1
jdk1.5.home=C:\\Java\\jdk1.5.0_22

You could also pass properties to Ant on the command line, for instance: ant
-Djtreg.home=/opt/jtreg-4.1 jtreg


2010/8/17 Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>

> Do you use environment variables or a build.properties?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Patricia
>
>
> On 8/17/2010 1:44 AM, Jonathan Costers wrote:
>
>> Building River on Windows (XP) and running the QA tests works fine ... No
>> new ground is being broken there.
>>
>> There are a couple things to watch out for, though:
>> 1. make sure the JDK you are using is installed in a path without spaces
>> (e.g. C:\Java)
>> 2. make sure you checkout River in a path without spaces (e.g.
>> C:\Projects\River)
>> 3. make sure the Ant you are using is using the JDK from (1) ->  you can
>> run
>> "ant diagnostics" in the project directory to find out
>> 4. when using an IDE to build, make sure this IDE runs on the JDK from (1)
>> -
>> you can configure this for Netbeans in<netbeans_home>/etc/netbeans.conf -
>> and the Ant from (3)
>>
>> Especially running the QA test suite will not work when the above is not
>> taken into account.
>>
>> But if it is, you'll see:
>>
>> -----------------------------------------
>> GENERAL HARNESS CONFIGURATION INFORMATION:
>>
>>    Date started:
>>       Tue Aug 17 00:19:16 CEST 2010
>>    Installation directory of the JSK:
>>       com.sun.jini.jsk.home=C:\Projects\river-trunk
>>    Installation directory of the harness:
>>       com.sun.jini.qa.home=C:\Projects\river-trunk\qa
>>    Categories being tested:
>>       categories=id loader policyprovider locatordiscovery activation
>> config
>> discoverymanager joinmanager url iiop jrmp reliability thread
>> -----------------------------------------
>> ENVIRONMENT PROPERTIES:
>>
>>    JVM information:
>>       Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM, 17.0-b17, 32 bit VM mode
>>       Sun Microsystems Inc.
>>    OS information:
>>       Windows XP, 5.1, x86
>>
>> .........
>>
>> -----------------------------------------
>>
>> # of tests started   = 397
>> # of tests completed = 397
>> # of tests skipped   = 18
>> # of tests passed    = 397
>> # of tests failed    = 0
>>
>> -----------------------------------------
>>
>>    Date finished:
>>       Tue Aug 17 02:50:48 CEST 2010
>>    Time elapsed:
>>       9092 seconds
>>
>> BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 151 minutes 34 seconds)
>>
>>
>> Best
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>> 2010/7/16 Peter Firmstone<jini@zeus.net.au>
>>
>>  Just a lack of time, I've made some attempts to set up a dev environment
>>> on
>>> Window's Vista, but ran into some problems getting it set up right.
>>>
>>> We've considered making a separate release of the qa tests, this would
>>> assist by checking binary compatibility is maintained, eg method
>>> signatures
>>> etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Peter.
>>>
>>> Patricia Shanahan wrote:
>>>
>>>  I'm a little concerned about the implications of my difficulties running
>>>> the River jtreg tests in a WindowsXP environment. I seem to be breaking
>>>> new
>>>> ground, but I feel a full test on at least one of the MS-Windows
>>>> operating
>>>> systems should be part of the release process, to guard against e.g.
>>>> dependence on a single rooted file system getting built in to River.
>>>>
>>>> Is there some reason against doing so, or just a lack of resources?
>>>>
>>>> Patricia
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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