[infinispan-dev] test number variations
Manik Surtani
manik at jboss.org
Fri Jun 1 07:22:13 EDT 2012
Hmm - how complex/time consuming a changeover do you reckon this would be?
On 1 Jun 2012, at 12:07, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
> Thanks Pete!
> that must be the reason; I'm glad nobody deleted 200 tests yesterday ;-)
>
> I would prefer JUnit too, definitely more reliable and I'm loving the
> latest features of it such as @Rule: makes it almost impossible to
> forget proper test clean-up and fights inheritance complexity.
>
> Cheers,
> Sanne
>
> On 1 June 2012 11:56, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:
>> TestNG/surefire in combo are dreadful at counting the number of tests. If you get errors, it will start counting failed before/after methods as well as real test methods. You basically shouldn't trust the count from any run except one where every test passed.
>>
>> I would strongly advise using JUnit for this, and many other reasons:
>>
>> * much better hooks into surefire, eclipse etc. etc.
>> * much more stable (rarely do I see bugs like this in it)
>> * you can actually debug the JUnit code without going blind
>> * much more flexible / extensible, due to use of runners
>>
>> BUT it doesn't have the built in features TestNG has...
>>
>> On 1 Jun 2012, at 10:59, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
>>
>>> On 1 June 2012 10:54, Manik Surtani <manik at jboss.org> wrote:
>>>> Could be due to a bad check-in where someone annotates a test with @Test(invocationCount = xxxx) - I have seen this a few times.
>>>
>>> Maybe, but you didn't convince me. This picture is way too unstable
>>> (overall testsuite) :
>>>
>>> https://infinispan.ci.cloudbees.com/job/Infinispan-master-JDK6-tcp/test/?width=800&height=600
>>>
>>> I'd rather think surefire / jenkins / testng / our listeners can't
>>> count correctly.
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