what are all the different type of testing required for Java API ?

[Gopi Chella]

Apart functional testing what are all the different kind of testing we can do for Java API(particularly for disted packages(jar files), here Exclude Java Web services).

how can we do performance testing for Disted packages ? if so which is the best tool to do that ?

Thanks in advance.

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

unit testing and regression testing come to mind.

For performance, what type of code are you trying to test. If back end, you could use JUnit or JUnit Perf. For a web app, you'd want a "real tool."