Running JDK pre-submit testing on GitHub

Posted on September 16, 2020

When making changes to the JDK, you almost always want to run a number of tests before submitting the change for review through a pull request. The test selection naturally depends on the nature of the change, but at the very least you often want to make sure that the “tier1” tests complete successfully on different platforms. This, however, can be easier said than done, depending on whether you have access to some correctly configured idle machines where you can execute them…

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