[jira] Commented: (SUREFIRE-130) Support tests written in Jython

["Ryan Lea (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Ryan Lea commented on SUREFIRE-130:
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I realise this is 3 years old.  From reading through the comments on a few issues: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-292 and http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-141 I'm not sure whether this kind of functionality is going to be implemented.

I'm about to start writing a similar provider and modify the surefire-plugin to handle my provider but was wondering if there was actually any kind of direction this project is taking that I should be taking into consideration to ensure that I don't require lots of rework.

Any comments or feedback would be welcomed.

Thanks

> Support tests written in Jython
> -------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SUREFIRE-130
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-130
>             Project: Maven Surefire
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Charlie Groves
>            Assignee: fabrizio giustina
>             Fix For: 2.x
>
>         Attachments: jythonProvider.tar.gz, jythonProviderTest.tar.gz, MSUREFIRE-122-maven-surefire-plugin.patch, MSUREFIRE-122-surefire-providers.patch
>
>
> I've written a first pass at a surefire-provider for JUnit and Python unittest TestCases written in Jython.  Before I continue any further I'd like to make sure that the provider is wanted and that I'm heading in the right direction.
> To do the minimum to get it up and running, I've hooked into the maven-surefire-plugin to hook my provider into the system somewhat like the TestNG provider did.  maven-surefire-plugin passes a path(defaults to src/test/jython) to the provider.  The provider searches the path for files matching include patterns and loads those as Python modules.  For every class in the matching modules that extends junit or unittest TestCase, it makes a SurefireTestSuite and exposes them for running.  Sound like a decent approach?
> To give it a spin, apply maven-surefire-plugin.patch, mvn install on the surefire-jython project and run mvn test in jythonProviderTest.  It's just contains a single Junit testcase with a failing and passing test.
> I haven't even checked what happens when the jython tests throw exceptions, and I know there's alot to be done as far as making it a usable plugin, but I felt like getting some feedback before continuing.

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