# Basic JavaTest tests

This test-suite contains a collection of tests which are designed to exercise the basic operation of JavaTest. In order to provide a simple test of the ability of the harness to tree-walk a set of pages, the tests are divided into two groups, compilation tests and execution tests.

The tests in this test-suite are designed to exhibit a full range of outcomes: tests that fail to compile, compile but don't execute, compile and execute, and so on. However, the names and descriptions of the individual tests indicate the expected behavior of each test, so that other tests in other test-suites may execute these tests and mechanically determine if they behaved as expected, and if the harness correctly reported their behavior.