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Introduction

Layout

Tutorial

Requirements

Run JT Harness

About This Release

Changes Since JT Harness, Version 3.2

Usage Notes

Introduction

The JT harness is based on Sun Microsystems' JavaTest harness. The JT harness is a general purpose, fully-featured, flexible, and configurable test harness very well suited for most types of unit testing. Originally developed as a test harness to run TCK test suites, it has since evolved into a general purpose test platform.

The JT harness:

• Is designed to configure, sequence, and run test suites that consist of many (100,000 or more) discrete, independent tests. It is especially good at testing APIs and compilers.
• Can be used to run tests on all of the Java platforms, from the Java Card platform, to the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition ("Java EE").
• Enables you to create test suites that are self-contained products that customers can easily configure and run.

JT harness 4.2 is a milestone release. We encourage you to try JT harness, participate in the community, and contribute to further development.

This binary release contains a built version of the JT harness (lib/javatest.jar) and a tutorial that introduces you to the JT harness graphical user interface.

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Layout

The JT harness binary distribution is laid out as follows:

install_dir/

legal/

Contains the licenses and Sun Microsystems copyrights that apply to this open source product.

lib/

Contains the JT harness binary javatest.jar, the JUnit binary jt-junit.jar, and support libraries.

doc/

Contains documentation that accompanies the JT harness product.

examples/tutorial

Contains the JT harness tutorial (tutorial.html)

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Tutorial

1. Make examples/tutorial your current directory.
2. Open tutorial.html in your web browser and follow the step-by-step directions.

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Requirements

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Run JT Harness

Run the JT harness using the following command:

% java -jar javatest.jar

Note: Typically, a user executes JT harness in the context of a test suite. Read the tutorial documentation for instructions about how to execute JT harness with the tutorial example test suite.

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About This Release

The JT Harness Version 4.2 adds features and fixes bugs.

New or Changed Features in Release 4.2

• The new service management feature provides the ability to map services to tests, manage the ports associated with services, and start and stop services manually and automatically. The Service Manager component allows users to interact with a service in a particular test suite.
• Improved storage of test suites and test results increases performance and improves the fidelity of the test tree display. This feature fixes 6636551, 6554712, 6549653, 6420603, 6624076, 6356516, and 6725978.
• Improved test suite monitoring allows test suites to pass more detailed execution information to the harness. This feature fixes 6597595.
• JTI files can now be exchanged across locales.
• The Quick Start Wizard is now optional. A test suite architect can omit the wizard from a test suite design.

Defects Fixed in Release 4.2

This release of the harness contains fixes for the following defects:

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Known Problems in Release 4.2

This release of the harness contains the following known defects:

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Changes Since JT Harness, Version 3.2

The JT harness Version 4.1.1 release provided basic changes in the following areas:

• Upgraded template support using .jtm file extension
• Upgraded the reporting system including an XML report type
• Added a report converter tool to merge or convert XML reports
• Added the Current Template view filter
• Added a command-line option that can be used to write a configuration (.jti file)
• Added a command-line control for the filter used to generate reports
• Updated the rendering of some interview question types
• Added a log viewer system that enables the browsing of debugging and tracing information
• Added additional capabilities to the Folder Pane test lists (a context menu and a second column of information)
• The JavaHelp system library (jh.jar) has been added to the binary distribution lib/ directory. User's are no longer required to download the library separately.

Version 4.1.2 was a bug fix release.

Version 4.1.3 added support for test suites based on JUnit 3.8.x and 4.x and also addressed bug fixes.

Version 4.1.4 was a milestone release that addressed bug fixes.

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Usage Notes

Run JT Harness with Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 5.0 or later. Note that the search capability in the online help does not work correctly after Java SE 5.0_03.

Printing Pages from the Online Help and Test Reports

Because of the method the Java SE platform uses to render fonts, when you print a document from the harness user interface, the fonts in the printed documents are larger than they are when rendered on the screen.

The JT Harness User's Guide has been provided in PDF form for your use in printing pages from the documents. While the online help viewer supports printing operations, in some cases you may be unable to use it to print a specific page. If this occurs, use the PDF version of the appropriate User's Guide to print the page. Printing of non-HTML report types is not supported. Users are informed of this when they attempt to print a non-HTML report type. Support will be added for this in a future release.

Changing Status Colors in the GUI

JT Harness allows you to specify the status colors used in the GUI. See the online help for detailed information about changing the default status colors.

Agent Monitor Tool

The Agent Monitor tool may not apply to all test suites, even if the test suite uses an agent. See your test suite documentation for detailed information about the agent that it uses and its use of the Agent Monitor tool.

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Copyright © 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. The JT Harness project is released under the GNU General Public License Version 2 (GPLv2)