[infinispan-dev] Infinispan Test language level to Java 8?

[Galder Zamarreño]

On 30 Apr 2014, at 16:31, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at infinispan.org> wrote:

> Valid concerns, but I think we should split those in two very
> different categories:
> 1- we provide testing utilities which are quite useful to other people too
> 2- we run unit tests on our own code to prevent regressions
> 
> If we split the utilities into a properly delivered package - built
> with Java7, having a very own Maven identity and maybe even a user
> guide - that would be even more useful to consumers. For example I use
> some of the utilities in both Hibernate Search and Hibernate OGM,
> dependending on the testing classifier of infinispan-core. I'd prefer
> to depend on a "proper" module with a somehow stable API, and this
> would be a great improvement for our users who start playing with
> Infinispan.. I often refer to our testsuite to explain how to setup
> things.

+1, a testkit module with stuff in TestCacheManagerFactory…etc would certainly help the separation. Akka is also a very good example where they’ve separated the tests from the tools used to help out testing.

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