I'd be a willing volunteer to help port the unit tests to JUnit 4. There are various methods to using JUnit 4 with JUnit 3 test cases, suites, etc., that allow for easier migration as well. I do know that JUnit 4 has a minimum requirement of Java 1.5 at least due to annotations.
On 30 March 2014 18:53, Antoine Levy Lambert <anto...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello Matt, > > thanks for this suggestion. > > I have not used the JUnit TemporaryFolder rule because it is introduced in > JUnit 4 and the Ant test cases are extending > a class of JUnit 3. > > The policy of the Ant project is usually to keep everything binary > compatible … > > If there is interest and willing volunteers and a consensus we could > change that, at least in the case of BuildFileTest and JUnit 3/4 and base > “BuildFileTest” on JUnit 4. > > Regards, > > Antoine > On Mar 23, 2014, at 1:50 PM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Could you use the JUnit TemporaryFolder rule? That appears to be rather > > threadsafe. > > > > > > On 23 March 2014 11:28, Antoine Levy Lambert <anto...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Thanks to John Elion for this contribution. > >> > >> I have tried it on the Ant test cases. This makes the execution of the > >> test cases shorter by 3 minutes with 2 threads [ not sure what is the > total > >> time because I also run the antunit tests ]. > >> > >> Some of our test cases do not support parallelism because they are > >> creating and dropping temporary directories and files which have the > same > >> names. > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
