[SUREFIRE-31] support junit 4.0

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.3
• Component/s: Junit 4.x support
• Assignee: Jason van Zyl
• Reporter: John Didion
• Created: 19/Feb/06 12:59
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 12:24
• Resolved: 06/Jan/07 12:09

Description

I know this is a pretty sizable task. I just wanted to get it in the system now that 4.0 has officially been released. Hopefully this will generate some discussion about how 4.0 will be handled - mainly if it will require a completely seperate implemenation of surefire (keeping the same API so it can easily be used by the maven plugin), or if use of 4.0 will be made a configurable option of the current surefire.

Here's some additional features I'd like to see:
1. Ability to categorize tests. Unfortunately, 4.0 doesn't include an @Category annotation, or make category a parameter of @Test. However, the filtering mechanism provided by 4.0 is sufficent to support categories given the presense of such an annotation. I recommend putting the @Category annotation in a seperate module (surefire-annotations?) and build support for it into surefire. Hopefully the junit guys could be convinced to incorporate it in a later version.
2. Similarly, support repeated tests via an @Repeated annotation. I'm not sure how easy this would be to do external to junit.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: SUREFIRE-139 JUnit 4 integration