[SUREFIRE-829] junit | Support inheritance while running test cases belonging to a particular category/group

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.12
• Fix Version/s: 2.15
• Component/s: Junit 4.x support
• Assignee: Andreas Gudian
• Reporter: Gayathri.Muralidharan
• Created: 06/Feb/12 08:51
• Updated: 10/Jun/13 14:40
• Resolved: 06/Jun/13 14:29

Description

We have a parent class which is extended by all the unit test cases (multi module maven based project)
It would be great if surefire plugin config looks for the category in parent class as well. This will avoid redundant @Category(UnitTestCategory.class) annotations, as we expect all unit test cases to extend the corresponding base class and the base class will alone be annotated with @Category(UnitTestCategory.class)

Please let me know if this can be achieved by any other config.

Thanks,
Gayathri