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

Marek Posolda mposolda at redhat.com
Thu Aug 15 09:19:45 EDT 2019


Thanks everyone, I've created JIRA and will try to take a look at it: 
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-11122

Marek

On 15. 08. 19 12:48, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
> +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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