[infinispan-dev] running test suite with JBossTM vs DummyTM

[Manik Surtani]

On 26 Jan 2011, at 12:17, Mircea Markus wrote:

> On 25 Jan 2011, at 17:12, Manik Surtani wrote:
>> How's this for a solution:
>> 
>> 1)  Test suite remains the same
> I don't think performance is affected by using JBossTM for test runs, I'll need to check by running it

It should be quicker.  There is no maintenance of a persistent tx log.

>> 2)  Running tests locally remains the same (using the DummyTM)
> Is there any advantage in doing that besides being able to run tests more quickly? :-)

Nope.

>> 3)  Our Hudson environment runs the testsuite with the -Dinfinispan.tm=jbosstm parameter.  
>> 
>> This way, at least our CI builds will use a *real* TM.  If we find failures on Hudson that we want to debug locally, we add -Dinfinispan.tm=jbosstm parameter.   to any local run we want to trace.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
> My concern is that we'll have to enhance DummyTM to be "more" compliant with the jta spec. As long as that's not going to happen I'm fine with using it for local test. IMO no point spending effort enhancing DummyTM.

I agree with you that there is no point expending effort to enhance the DummyTM - but IMO I don't think this is necessary right now.

Cheers
Manik
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