[DERBY-4726] Investigate updating Junit version required for Derby build and test

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 10.7.1.1
• Component/s: Build tools, Test
• Issue & fix info: High Value Fix, Newcomer
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Katherine Marsden
• Created: 30/Jun/10 16:38
• Updated: 01/Jun/13 11:37

Description

The derby build documentation BUILDING.html says the derby build requires JUnit 3.8.2. Junit 3.8.2 is no longer available at junit.org but can be downloaded from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/junit/files/

At a minimum we need to update the download references but it would be good to move ahead to JUnit 4 if possible., because who knows how long 3.8 will be generally available.
Knut mentioned the following useful history.

• It used to be that Derby wouldn't build with JUnit 4, but now it seems to, perhaps because we require JDK 1.5 in the build.
• He thinks that Junit 3.8.1 is still required for some small device platforms, because even 3.8.2 doesn't work there
• We recommend 3.8.2 in BUILDING.html is was that it was better on reporting errors. In particular, failures in tearDown() don't mask failures in the test case (they did 3.8.1)

Issue Links

• relates to: DERBY-6213 Deprecate support for Java 5 and CDC