[SUREFIRE-1898] Support the discovery of declarative test suites introduced with JUnit 5.8.0-M1

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0-M5
• Component/s: JUnit 5.x support, Maven Surefire Plugin
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Richard Zowalla
• Created: 23/Mar/21 15:07
• Updated: 13/Dec/21 19:42
• Resolved: 13/Dec/21 19:42

Description

JUnit 5.8.0-M1 introduced declarative test suites [1]. Specifically, a declarative test suite can now be declared via:

 

package org.junit.platform.suite;

@Suite
@SelectClasses({
        XTest.class,
        YTest.class,
        ZTest.class
})
class SelectClassesTest {
} 

which is equivalent to

 

   SummaryGeneratingListener listener = new SummaryGeneratingListener();
        Launcher launcher = LauncherFactory.create();
        LauncherDiscoveryRequest request = LauncherDiscoveryRequestBuilder.request()
                .selectors(
                        DiscoverySelectors.selectClass(XTest.class),
                        DiscoverySelectors.selectClass(YTest.class),
                        DiscoverySelectors.selectClass(ZTest.class)
                )
                .build();
        launcher.execute(request, listener);
        // get the test execution summary from the given listener

 

Further details can be found in [2].

At the moment, surefire will not discover SelectClassesTest as a valid test class (as well as the selected classes or packages) and will subsequently fail to discover related unit tests.

I would love to see support for declarative test suites in surefire.

References

• [1] https://junit.org/junit5/docs/5.8.0-M1/release-notes/
• [2] https://github.com/junit-team/junit5/pull/2416