[JBoss-dev] Fixing the testsuite for JRockit

[Dimitris Andreadis]

An important task for the jbas codebase is to fix the testsuite when run
under the jrockit JVM. This is initially for the 4.x branch but the
fixes should apply verbatim to jboss head.

The starting point is here (see linked tasks & subtasks)
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3598
http://cruisecontrol.jboss.com/cc/buildresults/jboss-4.0-testsuite-1.4

At any time there are anywhere between 54-58 failures, so if something
is in your area please have a go. We'll be assigning tasks to people,
soon.

Same thing for the testsuite when run under sun-jdk5 (around 10
failures)
http://cruisecontrol.jboss.com/cc/buildresults/jboss-4.0-testsuite-sun-1
.5
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3611

There are also a lot of transient failures in parts of the testsuite
that are more sensitive to timing/cpu issues (e.g. JMS), so subsequent
runs often produce different results. This may also have to do with
testsuite runs that interfere with each other.

If we can (a) improve those parts of the testsuite and (b) make sure
testsuite runs are more isolated from each other, that would be an
improvement.

(I see already a related task from Adrian:
http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3221)

Thanks
/Dimitris