[birt-dev] Problems getting tests to run. AllTests in org.eclipse.birt.d

[Sunitha Kambhampati <ksunithaghm@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

This is my first mail to this list. I am new to BIRT and am interested 
in contributing to BIRT.

With the help of the build instructions, I have been able to build BIRT 
ok. The build instructions tell us to omit some test packages 
(org.eclipse.birt.tests.data , org.eclipse.birt.report.tests.viewer) 
because they dont compile.

In the org.eclipse.birt.data, under tests, I ran the Junit test - 
AllTests.java that is under org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.

The results are as such:
Runs: 508/508 Failures:21 Errors:367

The aggregation tests 
org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.aggregration.FinanceTest and the TotalTest 
all pass OK.

The stack trace is as follows:
1.6666666666666667
org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.core.DataException: Column binding "COL" 
does not exist.
   at 
org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.impl.ExprManagerUtil.checkColumnBindingExist(ExprManagerUtil.java:230)
   at 
org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.impl.ExprManagerUtil.checkColumnBindingExpression(ExprManagerUtil.java:205)
   at 
org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.impl.ExprManagerUtil.validateColumnBinding(ExprManagerUtil.java:55)
   at 
org.eclipse.birt.data.engine.impl.ExprManagerUtilTest.testValidateNodes13(ExprManagerUtilTest.java:499)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
   at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:154)
   at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:127)
   at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
   at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
   at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)
   at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118)
   at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208)
   at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203)
   at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208)
   at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203)
   at 
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.junit3.JUnit3TestReference.run(JUnit3TestReference.java:128)
   at 
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
   at 
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:460)
   at 
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:673)
   at 
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:386)
   at 
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:196)

Is this because some projects are missing ?  What could be wrong in my 
setup.  The build instructions use BIRT_2_1_1_Release_20060927 source.   
and that is what I am testing with.

Can someone please help.  I'd be willing to write the instructions up to 
run tests, and we can put it up on the wiki/website

Thanks much,
Sunitha.