[LUCENE-1440] Add ability to run backwards-compatibility tests automatically

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.9
• Component/s: general/build
• Lucene Fields: New, Patch Available
• Assignee: Michael Busch
• Reporter: Michael Busch
• Created: 07/Nov/08 18:24
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 11:54
• Resolved: 08/Nov/08 18:34

Description

This is an idea Doug mentioned on LUCENE-1422.

This patch adds new targets to build.xml to automatically download the junit tests from a previous Lucene release and run them against the current core.
Execute tests like this:
ant -Dtag=lucene_2_4_0 test-tag

It will create a new directory tags/lucene_2_4_0 and fetch the tests from the svn repository and run them.