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

[Brian Stansberry]

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?

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Brian Stansberry
Lead, AS Clustering
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
brian.stansberry at redhat.com