== Writing Tests

1. There are actually *4* core test suites:

   a) org.jruby.test.MainTestSuite, a suite of pure-java tests;

   b) org.jruby.test.ScriptTestSuite, which runs a suite of files named
   one-per-line in test/test_index (these are the so-called "minirunit" tests
   which use an antiquated testing framework);

   c) org.jruby.test.TestUnitTestSuite, which runs a suite of files named
   one-per-line in test/jruby_index (and other test/*_index files).
   Note: some are commented out.

   d) 'Rubyspecs', fetched directly from Rubinius project. The specs
   are written in rspec format and aim to test conformance of JRuby
   against the Ruby specification.

2. If you'd like to contribute new tests, we'd prefer you write them in
Test::Unit and add to the test/test_unit_index file.

Also, you may consider contributing conformance tests to 'rubyspecs',
which are currently part of Rubinius project.

3. Naming conventions: testCamelCased.rb files are currently for
minirunit-based tests; test_under_scored.rb for Test::Unit tests.

4. We're also interested in running tests for other ruby software suites; if
you want to grab your favorite ruby software and run its own tests under JRuby
and report to the mailing list at dev@jruby.codehaus.org, that would be great.

5. Please file any and all patches in JIRA:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY

== Running Tests

Using ant, type

  ant test

The three test suites should be run in order.

To run rubyspecs, type

  ant spec

The rubyspecs will be fetched over the net, and then executed.