Release Notes

JT Harness Binary Distribution
Version 4.4

June 2011

Table of Contents

Introduction
Layout
Tutorial
Requirements
Run JT Harness
About This Release
Security Note
General Bugs Fixed in Release 4.4
Bugs of Interest to Test Suite Architects Fixed in Release 4.4
Known Bugs in Release 4.4
Usage Notes

Introduction

JT harness is based on Oracle's 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:

JT harness 4.4 contains new features as well as bug fixes. 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.


Layout

The JT harness binary distribution is laid out as follows:

install_dir/

legal/
Contains the licenses and Oracle 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

The JT harness tutorial includes an HTML tutorial that uses an example API and testsuite to introduce you to the JT harness graphical user interface. Follow these steps to run the tutorial:

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

Requirements

The JT harness requires the technologies listed in the following table.

Technology Where to Get It Notes
JDK™ version 1.6 or later http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/index.html

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.


About This Release

The JT Harness, Version 4.4 is a feature release. It fixes bugs and it contains the following notable changes:

Security Note

This section discusses potential security vulnerabilities in the harness deliverables.

The harness itself is self-contained in javatest.jar, the only external dependency is jh.jar, which should be placed either on the classpath or in the same directory as javatest.jar. If desired, the following optional parts of the binary distribution can be deleted:

Remote Agent Risks

The harness includes the JT Harness agent, a remote execution framework. Using the agent opens communication ports on your machine and on the agent machine, therefore care is required to ensure that the machine is protected against malicious attack.

For secure operation, both the host and the remote machine should be used in a protected intranet on a physically isolated network.


Bugs Fixed in Release 4.4

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

Bug ID Description
6495417 Improve usability of the "Report Converter" tool.
6497948 Improve test selection GUI by employing check-box tree.
6513941 Save view filter setting.
6540784 Improve speed of loading the ResultCache file.
6767605 Restoring state for slightly different test suites causes problem.
6793690 Harness takes an unreasonably long time to start executing a large number of selected test names.
6901152 Allow known test execution order.
6957357 Configuration->Load Recent Configuration menu behavior is incorrect.
6942088 Not possible to generate COF file for old results.
6867785 COF generator doesn't use the platform of the host where the tests have been executed.
6974144 COF generator should always add information on test cases to XML.
6974915 COF file should be based on the JTI for providing info about tests which were not run.

 


Bugs Fixed in Release 4.4 Specifically of Interest to Test Suite Architects

The following bugs will be of interest to test suite architects.

Bug ID Description
7001921 ContextManager is inaccessible from test suite.
7001923 ContextManager.refreshTests() collapses tests' tree.
7003414 ISSUE #71: Need an ability to remove "Agent Monitor" menu.
7019591 Order of questions loading should be specified.
6466213 JAR files should be updated to conform to current layout standards.
6571505 Not able to create a work directory using a relative path.
6890139 Misprints in Java files.
6980497 Impossible to provide a BinaryTestFinder subclass in "finder", in jtt.

Known Bugs in Release 4.4

The following are known issues in the JT Harness 4.4 release.

Bug ID Description
6434239 A long name for template/configuration files cannot be fully displayed.
6446655 There's a keyboard navigation problem in the Tests To Run tree.
6451875 Log Viewer: Impossible to mark log text when live scrolling mode is ON.
6478125 Some files remain locked after closing the working directory, preventing the deletion of the directory.
6488302 Errors while opening write-protected working directory.
6518334 Report Converter does not generate an error message for an existing report file.
6518375 Resolving conflicts between two reports in the Report Converter is confusing.
6543609 "Waiting to lock test result cache" is not interruptible.
6675884 Tooltips in PropertiesQuestion are sometimes incorrect.
6796286 Inconsistent style for editing numeric values in IntQuestion, FloatQuestion and PropertiesQuestion.

Changes Since JT Harness, Version 3.2

The JT Harness, Version 4.1 release provided basic changes in the following areas:

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 bug fix release.

Version 4.2 was a bug fix release.

Version 4.2.1 was a maintenance release. It included changes to enable the Test Panel to update as a test runs, and extended the Quick Pick execution to include Tests to Run settings in configurations. This behavior is controlled by preference settings.

Version 4.3 was a release with the following major features:

Usage Notes

This section discusses features that are working properly but have limitations due to factors JT Harness can't control.

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.