[SUREFIRE-833] Support for annotated JUnit @Category

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.12
• Component/s: Junit 4.x support
• Assignee: Tibor Digana
• Reporter: Jan Goyvaerts
• Created: 09/Feb/12 06:03
• Updated: 03/Dec/16 18:22
• Resolved: 03/Dec/16 18:22

Description

The current implementation of Surefire seems to look for explicit @Category annotations in the test classes. And will only consider those. Suppose I'd like to add a more concise annotation for this:

@Category(IntegrationTests.class) <== JUnit @Category
@Target(

{ElementType.TYPE}

)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Documented
public @interface IntegrationTest {}

Annotating my test class with @IntegrationTest does not work. Although I think it looks much better than repeating everywhere in my code "@Category(com.foo.bar.IntegrationTests.class)". For which I add an additional dependency in the interface class btw.