[keycloak-dev] Configure surefire to run test classes in static order?

[Bruno Oliveira]

+1 on this. That may also help us also with CrossDC tests.

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 5:33 PM Marek Posolda <mposolda at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> It seems it may be possible to configure maven-surefire-plugin to use
> "static" order of test classes when executing testsuite. Should be
> doable with the "runOrder" parameter switched for example to
> "alphabetical" [1].
>
> In theory, order of the tests shouldn't be important as each test should
> cleanup after itself. Reality is, that we often have bugs due that some
> test class didn't properly clean everything after itself. And when some
> following test fails, it may not be so trivial to find the original test
> class, which caused this. Static order should help with having the
> testsuite more deterministic and ensure that you can simulate same
> issues locally and in jenkins - see for example this comment for some
> details [2].
>
> WDYT?
>
> [1]
> http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html#runOrder
> [2]
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-10904?focusedCommentId=13770826&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-13770826
>
> Marek
>
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