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Tibor Digana commented on SUREFIRE-995:
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@Paul
This feature should already work with surefire-2.18.
Can you check it out? Let me know if the issue can be closed.
Thx
> Support searching superclass for JUnit @Category
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>
> Key: SUREFIRE-995
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-995
> Project: Maven Surefire
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Junit 4.x support
> Affects Versions: 2.14.1
> Reporter: Paul Philion
> Assignee: Tibor Digana
>
> It looks like when evaluating <groups> and <excludedGroups> using the
> @Category, only the test class itself (and not any superclasses) is searched
> for the annotation.
> It would be very helpful if the search included superclasses.
> Aside: It took me a few hours to track this down. I like to implement
> abstract superclasses for all my testing patterns (integration test with full
> DB vs. "functional test" using stub DB vs strict unit test with mock
> objects). Typically, adding the annotation to the superclass (like
> @BeforeClass and @AfterClass) to handle standard initialization. However, the
> @Category works only in the concrete test class (not an abstract superclass).
> If you need a more concrete example (sample code, etc.), I am happy to
> provide.
> Right now, the simple work-around is to include @Category in all concrete
> test classes where it is important. I'm using it in/exclude integration tests.
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