Sun Microsystems 1.2 manual Test Description Fields Keywords

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Test Description Fields and

Keywords

This appendix describes the Framework supported fields and keywords for test description files.

The JavaTest harness requires that each test is accompanied by machine readable descriptive data in the form of test suite-specific name-value pairs contained in a test description file. The JavaTest harness uses the contents of the test description file to configure and run tests.

See the Java Technology Test Suite Development Guide for detailed information about creating test description files.

Test Description Fields

The test description file provides the harness with critical information required to run the specified test. Test description files contain fields that supply the following information to the harness:

■Source files that belong to the test

■Class or executable to run

■Information to determine how to run the test

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