[HBASE-27858] Update surefire version to 3.0.0 and use the SurefireForkNodeFactory

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.6.0, 3.0.0-alpha-4, 2.5.5, 2.4.18
• Component/s: test

Environment

maven unit tests

• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jonathan Albrecht
• Reporter: Jonathan Albrecht
• Created: 11/May/23 12:32
• Updated: 14/May/23 19:33
• Resolved: 13/May/23 11:05

Description

The final surefire version 3.0.0 is released so we can update from 3.0.0-M6 -> 3.0.0. The final version has several fixes and is more stable.
 
SurefireForkNodeFactory is a new strategy to control how the surefire forked nodes communicate with the main maven process. It uses a tcp channel instead of process pipes. It helps to fix some "corrupted channel" messages seen in the s390x build and should be more reliable on all platforms. I have been testing locally on amd64 and s390x and have not had any issues.
 
Ref: 
https://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/process-communication.html
 

Issue Links

• is blocked by: HBASE-27851 TestListTablesByState is silently failing due to a surefire bug
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5234