[SUREFIRE-1526] Allow the Maven Surefire Plugin to be used to test non-java projects

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.22.0
• Component/s: Maven Surefire Plugin
• Labels: features refactoring
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Devin Owens
• Created: 22/Jun/18 18:19
• Updated: 17/Dec/21 22:21

Description

My Company uses a custom language that we've written a unit test framework for in Java. We would like to be able to run those tests as part of our maven build process and the Maven Surefire Plugin with out unit test framework as a test provider seems to be the best option, but the Maven Surefire Plugin looks for a java test file in src/test/java or a testng xml file before invoking the provider in AbstractSurefireMojo.execute(). Since the tests that our provider runs are not java tests this means that our tests can't be run. If there is not already a supported way of doing this I would recommend making checking for the existence of tests the responsibility of the test provider.