[ANN] Maven Surefire Plugin 2.11 Released

[Kristian Rosenvold <kr...@apache.org>]

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven
Surefire Plugin, version 2.11


This release includes the maven-surefire-plugin, which executes the
unit tests of an application, the maven-surefire-report-plugin, which
parses surefire/failsafe test results and renders them to DOXIA
creating the web interface version of the test results, as well as the
maven-failsafe-plugin, which executes the integration tests of an
application.

This version supports JUnit 4.8 @Category annotation, using the
"groups" parameter on the plugin (using the 4.7 provider).

The other new feature in this release are runOrder="failedfirst" and
runOrder="balanced", this last parameter tries to optimize the overall
run-time for parallel test runs.


Users migrating from "classic" JUnit4 to the 4.7 provider to use
categories may want to take note of
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-798

Users having troubles running with forkMode="never" for 2.9 and 2.10 may
want to take note of
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-801.

Changes to the proposed Surefire API are documented in the API page
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/api.html

This version is marked as the last java 1.4 compatible version, the
next version will
be java 1.5. Surefire can still fork all the way down to jdk 1.3 for
JUnit 3.8.1.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-failsafe-plugin/

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:


<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.11</version>
</plugin>



Release Notes - Maven Surefire - Version 2.11



** Bug
    * [SUREFIRE-508] - cannot run GWTTestCases with surefire
    * [SUREFIRE-549] - TestNg provider does not run junit tests
correctly when forkMode=always
    * [SUREFIRE-746] - Other registered failing RunListeners cause
NullPointerException in ConcurrentReporterManager, falsely report of
"No tests were executed!":
    * [SUREFIRE-760] - mvn -Dtest=ClassName#methodName does not work
with parallel tests
    * [SUREFIRE-775] - ForkingRunListener throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
    * [SUREFIRE-777] - Wrong default name for Failsafe Report
    * [SUREFIRE-780] - Success claimed when jvm fails to launch
    * [SUREFIRE-782] - Wrong links on surefire-plugin page
    * [SUREFIRE-785] - Lots of newlines being strewn about in test output
    * [SUREFIRE-786] - JUnit @Category are not taken into account if
forkMode=always
    * [SUREFIRE-787] - Test fail cause message is badly displayed if
exception message conatins line feeds
    * [SUREFIRE-791] - JUnit47 provider reports incorrect elapsed time
on test failure.
    * [SUREFIRE-793] - JUnit47 provider reports incorrect time in the XML report
    * [SUREFIRE-801] - Classloading compatibility break with
forkMode=NEVER in 2.9 and 2.10


** Improvement
    * [SUREFIRE-518] - Do not generate empty ouput files when
redirectTestOutputToFile is enabled
    * [SUREFIRE-611] - surefire exit code should explicitly
distinguish between crashed and failed unit test(s)
    * [SUREFIRE-772] - [Report Goal] Skip Maven Failsafe Report

** New Feature
    * [SUREFIRE-656] - JUnit 4.8 @Category support
    * [SUREFIRE-795] - There should be a way to balance tests across threads

** Story
    * [SUREFIRE-784] - Surefire plugin cannot be debugged remotely by eclipse

** Task
    * [SUREFIRE-802] - Dcoument Surefire API changes


** Wish
    * [SUREFIRE-329] - Support for JUNIT extensions


Enjoy,

-The Maven team