Hello Michael, yes please go back and continue this, this is interesting.
@Matt we are always happy to have new volunteers to help us maintain Ant :-) Ant’s minimum Java version is 1.5 so we are good on that side. Regards, Antoine On Mar 31, 2014, at 5:28 PM, Michael Clarke <michael.m.cla...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had started this a few months back ( > https://github.com/mc1arke/ant/tree/JUnit4Conversion) but got side-tracked > due to a job change. I'd be happy to go back and continue/finish the work > if there's a general demand for it. > > > On 31 March 2014 01:14, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
