[jira] [Commented] (SUREFIRE-1235) generic/consolidated rapid test execution support needed

["Tibor Digana (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Tibor Digana commented on SUREFIRE-1235:
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[~rnfm7avr]
Good idea with Jetty but the question is different because Surefire is not an application server. How would you propose to scan the file system, maybe using Java 7 file watcher, and how would you determine the changes are ready to take. Imaging that the compiler would have to compile the source all the time the Eclipse Compiler is incremental compiler and it would overload CPU if compiling over and over again.
Generally it is a good idea but a lots of work to do.

> generic/consolidated rapid test execution support needed
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SUREFIRE-1235
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1235
>             Project: Maven Surefire
>          Issue Type: Wish
>    Affects Versions: 2.19.1
>            Reporter: Mark
>            Assignee: Tibor Digana
>
> Many IDEs have seemingly implemented their own rapid test unit execution infrastracture. Netbeans is still lacking, and I think for good reason.
> https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=238543
> Instead of every IDE running its own rapid test execution infrastructure, I'd prefer maven, in particular the surefire plugin, to provide some solution to the problem.
> My proposal: do you know "mvn jetty:run"? It starts a jetty server and can be configured to scan the class path for changes. And it reloads when it detects them. Wouldnt that be a nice solution for surefire to provide rapid test execution? ie. provide some long running (non-terminating) mode where a) IDEs can trigger single test executions and b) it scans/listens to class path changes in order to re-run tests (optional).



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