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<boxtitle><a name="testing">Classpath::Testing</a></boxtitle>
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The test framework for GNU Classpath is called 
<createlink url="http://sources.redhat.com/mauve/" name="Mauve">.  There 
are instructions within the Mauve website on how to download and use Mauve.
Writing Mauve tests is the most important thing GNU Classpath developers
could do for the project at this time.
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Java API compatibility testing can be performed using 
<createlink url="http://www.kaffe.org/~stuart/japi/"
name="japitools">.  Japitools already does
full API comparisons but it doesn't have the capability to extract
APIs from the documentation - instead, the "japize" tool uses the
jode.bytecode library to identify the public members of a given set of
packages from the binary jars or zips.  But japitools does separate the
API-inspection phase ("japize") from the compatibility-testing phase
("japicompat") so it would be easy to offer an alternative to japize
that worked on API documentation.
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Another method of API compatibility testing is to use <createlink
url="http://majestix.ucnet.uoc.gr/~jgeorgal/pub/jdiff.sh"
name="jdiff.sh">, at least until this functionality is merged into
japitools.
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<boxtitle><a name="benchmarks">Classpath::Benchmarks</a></boxtitle>
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Many free benchmarks are available. Benchmarks are a good way to test the functionality of a VM and at the same time get results that can be compared.

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	<th>Name</th><th>Description</th>
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	<td><createlink name="Ashes" url="http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/ashes/"></td>
	<td>The Ashes benchmark</td>
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