[jbosscache-dev] AS Integration tests in JBC test suites

I'd like to propose adding a package structure in the core cache and pojo cache testsuites for adding tests of compliance with the behavior the AS and Hibernate expect from JBC. Basically, in these packages the AS developers would write tests that simulate the AS and Hibernate usage of JBC. Simulations would *not* add any new dependencies. Goal over time is to 99.5% eliminate the chances of finding JBC-caused regressions in the AS/Hibernate testsuites by ensuring they are caught in JBC itself. Right now a lot of issues slip through because the JBC test suites have a hard time covering all of its permutations of features. Something gets changed and a test gets added, but it doesn't cover the configuration set AS/Hibernate uses, so we get a regression at the AS level. Downside to this is theoretically everything we add in these new packages should be redundant. But in practice that will be hard to achieve. Comments? -- Brian Stansberry Lead, AS Clustering JBoss, a division of Red Hat brian.stansberry(a)redhat.com