[DERBY-313] testing/README.htm property descriptions: testSpecialProps wrongly named; useprocess omitted

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 10.1.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 10.1.1.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Environment: n/a
• Assignee: Dag H. Wanvik
• Reporter: Dag H. Wanvik
• Created: 25/May/05 07:30
• Updated: 02/Jun/05 04:26
• Resolved: 02/Jun/05 04:26

Description

In section 4.12 in ../testing/README.htm, the property

TestSpecialFlags

is described for specifying additional properties to RunTest. I could not
find any evidence of this in RunTest or elsewhere. However, the property

testSpecialProps

is supported by RunTest.java. I found this to work. This property
also has a syntax for specifying more than one property using a "^"
delimiter between properties, i.e.

testSpecialProps=<prop-1>=<value-1>^ ... ^<prop-n>=<value-n>

Also,I noticed the property "useprocess" (default=true) for controlling
whether RunTest runs the test in a separate vm or a thread in current
vm isn't documented in README.htm. I suggest it be included, since
it's potentially useful for debugging tests. I could include it in the
patch for derby-313 (I don't think anybody committed it yet) or file a
new JIRA issue.

Looking at RunTest reveals that unit tests are not (yet) runnable with
"useprocess=false", though.