[jbosstools-dev] Surefire testing w/ Tycho in Parallel Mode? Does anyone use that? Would you miss it?

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

> In re: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12954 it's been made clear 
> that running surefire-launched tests from Tycho via Maven does not work 
> in parallel=true mode for Tycho >=0.16.0.

yes, seem tycho 0.16 explicit adds support for parrallel unit testing.

see the releasenotes :
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Release_Notes/0.16
Support for parallel test execution with JUnit >= 4.7 has been added.

Seems the syntax has changed?

> * Does anyone exploit the ability to run junit or integration tests in 
> parallel?

well, if the parent pom have it enabled its always been exploited I assume or was that simply just ignored by tycho before ?

> * If so, do you use this for classes, methods, or both?

> I'm considering removing 
> https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-build/blob/master/parent/pom.xml#L230 
> from our parent pom but would prefer to not break people unexpectedly.
> 
> * Would switching to parallel=both be better?

Depends if parallel was actually working before or not ?

...but I wonder why/who added that line in the first place. i'll digg a bit.
/max