[HBASE-3555] Switch to TestNG

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Later
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: ryan rawson
• Created: 22/Feb/11 20:41
• Updated: 12/Jun/22 00:51
• Resolved: 26/Jan/14 22:40

Description

I have been messing with TestNG and I think we should switch to it. It is very similar to junit 4 with annotations, but it supports several features which would allow our build to become slightly more sane:

• test groups allow us to separate slow/fast tests from each other
• surefire support for running specific groups would allow 'check in tests' vs 'hudson/integration tests' (ie fast/slow)
• it supports all the features of junit 4, plus it is VERY similar, making for the transition easy.
• they have assertEquals(byte[],byte[])