[jakartaee-platform-dev] TCK tests in the same repo as API and Spec

[Andy Guibert <andy.guibert@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Currently all of the Jakarta EE TCK tests are housed in one big repo and they use a custom test framework from the Java EE days:

https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-tck 

 It is more convenient to have the TCK tests in the same repo as the API and spec docs because as the technologies change over time all 3 parts (tck/api/spec) can be updated in the same PR. Additionally, implementations can then consume the TCK tests as Maven artifacts and run/verify that they pass the TCK. This is what MicroProfile has done and it works very well.

As an example, I've started this off with the JSON-B TCK test here:

jsonb-api pr: https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jsonb-api/pull/221

yasson (impl) pr: https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/yasson/pull/379

Just wanted to share this with the wider dev community and encourage other specs to follow suit as time permits.

Cheers, Andy

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