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Dan Fabulich closed SUREFIRE-486.
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Resolution: Won't Fix
That page doesn't have anything to do with testing, though I'm quite familiar
with the idea that some tests may be expected to fail on some platforms but
pass on other platforms.
TestNG allows you to specify an external suite file which configures which
tests will be skipped. You can also use code to decide when to throw a skip
exception. You can even dynamically query your bug DB to find out whether a
bug is still unresolved, and skip only if the bug is open. [Of course, it may
not be a good idea to make your tests that complex. ;-)]
Your remark about being "tied to a testing framework" is strange, because
Surefire only runs tests that are tied to a testing framework: it will run
JUnit tests (which are "tied" to JUnit) or it will run TestNG tests (which are
"tied" to TestNG). The @Ignore/Skip feature is not specific to either
framework; you can use it in either, but if you want to switch frameworks, you
have to re-code all of your tests.
More generally, sometimes people file feature requests to Surefire that are
appropriately targeted to the underlying test framework. ["I wish JUnit had
feature X. But the JUnit guys do releases less than once a year! Maybe I
could ask the Surefire guys to do it for me instead."]
This is one of those feature requests that not only *can* be solved by the
underlying test framework, it already *has* been solved in both of the test
frameworks we support.
> Exlude tests via an external exlude file
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>
> Key: SUREFIRE-486
> URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-486
> Project: Maven Surefire
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Thomas Diesler
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> Similar to Ant, Surefire should support excludes defined in an external file
> like this
> <testExcludes>
> <excludeFile>test-excludes-jboss501.txt</excludeFile>
> </testExcludes>
> The exclude file would look like this
> # [JBWS-2135] WebServiceException: Undefined port type
> org/jboss/test/ws/jaxws/jbws1822/**
> # [JBWS-2136] ClassCastException:
> com.sun.xml.ws.server.EndpointMessageContextImpl
> org/jboss/test/ws/jaxws/namespace/**
> # [JBAS-5359] mapped-name is required for context of deployment
> org/jboss/test/ws/jaxws/jbws1611/**
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