I've just started using SuiteRunner on a project, and I ran into some problems getting the test classes to reload in the GUI. I knew I'd gotten this to work when I'd experimented with SuiteRunner some time back, and I looked in Getting Started, the tutorial, and the API for Runner, and I couldn't find any pointers to what I was doing wrong. I eventually discovered that if I removed the classes I wanted to reload from the classpath (and specified the directory in the runpath only), it worked - the classes were reloaded.
Is this the way things are supposed to work, or am I missing something? If classes found in the classpath will never reload in the GUI, it might be nice if that fact were mentioned in the documentation somewhere. (The two places I'm aware of that mention the reloading feature are the "Specifying a Runpath" sections on page six of the tutorial and in the JavaDoc for the Runner class.) Anyway, I just thought I'd post here in case someone else runs into the same problem down the road - being able to reload the classes in the GUI is a very handy feature.
(By the way, the reason I had my classes in both the classpath and the runpath was that I was launching SuiteRunner through Eclipse - actually IBM ASTK 5.1 - and the default classpath included my project code. Once I modified the launch configuration to use a modified classpath, I was good to go.)
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