Multiple test suites and the Java Platform
- Currently we test By Value
- Incorporating tests is (relatively) simple, since we develop to (relatively)
common standards
- All Sun-developed test suites use the same test harness (JavaTest)
- Some differences nevertheless exist, particularly between J2SE and
J2EE test suites
- Different test metadata formats, build mechanisms
- Different execution environments
- Considering testing By Reference due to rapidly increasing size
of the platform test suites
- Need to improve the user-experience when multiple test suites are to
be executed
- We also incorporate W3C tests (eg, for XML Core, Schema)
- We'd really like to use By Reference for W3C specs
- Plug in any parser you want, so long as it passes version x.y of
the W3C parser test suite, located <here>
