[Engine-devel] Running test suites on other OSs

Hi guys, After some on-and-off work over the last week (thanks Daniel!), as of this morning, engine's test suite runs successfully on a couple of non-fedora/rhel OSs[1]. The easier to get/build/test the code, the more likely we'll be to get more developers on board, so let's try and keep it this way. How to achieve this, in one sentence: "Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups" Some slightly more detailed pointers: 1. File separators: Remember File.separatorChar? good. 2. TimeZones: If your test implicitly assumes a time zone (i.e., has anything to do with date formatting, DST changes, etc.), set it explicitly - don't assume that everyone's env shares your timezone 3. org.junit.Assume is your friend Thanks, Allon [1] Don't ask, don't tell: http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/8192/5