Find open source Java projects that use JUnit and Ant
I am currently doing some research and I am looking for open source Java projects that use JUnit and Ant. Ideally, I would like to have projects that vary in size / complexity / domain as well as the coverage of the test suite.
I find it difficult to find suitable open source projects that meet these criteria:
- There are some JUnit test cases in the project
- All JUnit test cases can be run from one test class (i.e. JUnit TestSuite)
- The project uses Ant for building and testing
I'm sure the community will benefit from a list of used open source projects that meet the above criteria. You can always learn from projects that use these technologies. As a side bonus, researchers could also quickly identify suitable open source projects for their research.
Below are the eligible open source projects according to the criteria:
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Well, I just came across JSR-166 , Java Specification Request for Various Concurrency Utilities. The source code has a top-level Ant task and a fairly extensive JUnit-based testuite. As an added benefit, the units under test are actually classes that are included in the JDK, which has several benefits:
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They are very well documented, which is usually not the case.
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Since they are part of the JDK, they should be familiar with most experienced Java programmers by now. Understanding supporting infrastructure such as a build system or test suite is difficult enough without having to understand the actual codebase.
However, there are a couple of problems:
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The current code is a bleeding edge - literally! The current version already requires at least Java 7 and seems to target Java 8. You might want to get an older version of the code that is closer to the Java versions used in production.
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The JSR-166 source code is not well organized. The obvious problem I faced was the lack of a singular root of the package and the redundancy of the default package-related classes. You have been warned ...
PS: This question doesn't really fit on StackOverflow as it doesn't have an answer. I gave this answer to point out an obvious code repository, that is, in Java, which inexperienced programmers tend to ignore completely as they consider it part of the system ...
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