[JBoss-dev] Re: Fixing the testsuite for JRockit

[Scott M Stark]

Or you can override the suite method to explicitly register the tests to 
run. This should maintain the order.

Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
> I started looking into some Jrockit failures and I realized that the
> execution order of Junit tests inside a class *MAY BE THE REVERSE* when
> running with Jrockit, compared to using sun's JVM.
>
> This boils down to Class.getMethods()/getDeclaredMethods() returnings
> methods in an undefined order:
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html#getMethods(
> )
>
> Other people have stumbled on this before and the verdict seems to be
> that tests should be re-written to work in any order:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=142528
> http://mail-archive.objectweb.org/howl/2005-11/msg00058.html
>
> I'm certain there are places in our testsuite that really depend on the
> execution order, in fact this could explain the majority of jrockit
> failures, so unless we isolate and conditionally execute those tests, we
> need to fix them!
>
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