On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 4:04 PM Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushfo...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi Johan, > > FOr the systemTests project, the gradle test runner does run each test > class in its own VM, as a result of the "forkEvery = 1" setting. As > noted, gradle launches tests using a gradle test runner class as the > main method, but there is still a 1 VM to 1 test class relationship. > Yes, but the main class is not the class extending from Application, which makes a difference for sun.launcher.LauncherHelper > We have a few tests that specifically test launching JavaFX > applications, including testing classes that extend Application (with > and without a main method), such as the ones in test.launchertest, but > they do it by exec-ing a new Java process. Would that work for what you > want to do? > That looks indeed exactly what I want. Thanks for the pointer, I'll have a look! Perhaps tangentially related to this, I spent some time a while ago > looking at what it would take to use jtreg to run our tests. I was > looking at jtreg's ability to run JUnit tests, but there is also a mode > of jtreg to run standalone main program tests. That could provide a way > to run test applications directly, although likely only for tests > written with that in mind. > Sounds interesting. > -- Kevin > > > On 3/1/2024 6:18 AM, Johan Vos wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We currently run systemtests using a gradle command, but that doesn't > > start a clean Java process for the individual tests (which would be > > very convenient as that allows us to inspect the process with VisualVM). > > We know the behavior of a JavaFX application can be different depending > if > > 1. the mainClass is the class extending from Application > > 2. the mainClass is a wrapper class from e.g. Gradle or Maven. > > > > For system tests, I think it would be real handy to run them using the > > first option, but I am not aware of an easy solution to make that work > > with the current gradle setup. Or am I missing something obvious? > > > > Thanks, > > > > - Johan > >
