[infinispan-dev] Question about Hibernate ORM 5.0 + Infinispan 8.0...

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 5 August 2015 at 10:06, Galder Zamarreno <galder at redhat.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 31 July 2015 at 11:30, Dan Berindei <dan.berindei at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Sanne
>> >
>> > Does Hibernate really need to use the Infinispan test helpers? They
>> > don't really do much unless you run the tests in parallel and you need
>> > them to be isolated...
>>
>> Good point. I don't know why it's using them exactly, but I guess it's
>> also to reduce thread pools and similar. We should ask Galder.
>
> There's not much to say other than Hibernate 2LC uses test helpers to make things easier to test, e.g. create clusters more easily, use test ping, mbeans...etc.
>
>> But I thought there was an intention to ultimately suggest Infinispan
>> end users to use our test helpers for development too?
>
> I talked about this in our last F2F, at some point we should create a testkit project with all the helpers...etc, independent of the testing framework used by the user. Right now, both set of helpers (test framework, and cache/cache manager creation ones) are bundled into one, and there's a fair bit of duplication around.

+1 and apparently it would also be useful to provide a somewhat stable
API for testing utilities: these are useful for Hibernate but are
likely useful for others too.

Sanne