[SUREFIRE-795] There should be a way to balance tests across threads

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.11
• Assignee: Kristian Rosenvold
• Reporter: Kristian Rosenvold
• Created: 22/Nov/11 15:31
• Updated: 22/Nov/11 15:47
• Resolved: 22/Nov/11 15:44

Description

With long-running tests such as selenium-tests, it should be possible to make surefire balance the workload across threads in such a manner that all the tests finish at nearly the same time. Typically, when running selenium tests, we see that one single test keeps on running for several minutes /alone/ at the end of a long parallel run. This operation makes most sense in "classes" mode