[NIFI-7131] Add categorization to unit tests

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.11.1
• Component/s: Tools and Build
• Labels: junit testing
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andy LoPresto
• Created: 10/Feb/20 23:47
• Updated: 10/Feb/20 23:47

Description

The project contains many types of tests - unit vs. integration; extension-specific; fast vs. long-running, etc.

Introducing test categorization (see Tagging and Filtering JUnit Tests) allows for specific test suites to be run in various environments: only "fast" tests on a local build machine or Travis instance, for example. These categories can be integrated with Maven profiles for ease of use.