[HADOOP-13514] Upgrade maven surefire plugin to 2.20.1

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.8.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.0
• Component/s: build
• Target Version/s: 3.1.0, 2.10.0
• Assignee: Akira Ajisaka
• Reporter: Ewan Higgs
• Created: 18/Aug/16 09:46
• Updated: 02/Oct/19 17:14
• Resolved: 19/Nov/17 20:40

Description

A lot of people working on Hadoop don't want to run all the tests when they develop; only the bits they're working on. Surefire 2.19 introduced more useful test filters which let us run a subset of the tests that brings the build time down from 'come back tomorrow' to 'grab a coffee'.

For instance, if I only care about the S3 adaptor, I might run:

mvn test -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -Pdist,native -Djava.awt.headless=true \"-Dtest=org.apache.hadoop.fs.*, org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.*, org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.*\"

We can work around this by specifying the surefire version on the command line but it would be better, imo, to just update the default surefire used.

mvn test -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -Pdist,native -Djava.awt.headless=true \"-Dtest=org.apache.hadoop.fs.*, org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.*, org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.*\" -Dmaven-surefire-plugin.version=2.19.1

Issue Links

• blocks: HADOOP-14775 Change junit dependency in parent pom file to junit 5 while maintaining backward compatibility to junit4.
• breaks: HADOOP-15711 Move branch-2 precommit/nightly test builds to java 8
• is related to: HADOOP-15251 Backport HADOOP-13514 (surefire upgrade) to branch-2
• relates to: SUREFIRE-1226 Surefire trims all stack trace elements except those in the test that failed
• relates to: HDFS-12711 deadly hdfs test