[seam-dev] seam-parent overhaul

[Jason Porter]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 13:09, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 20:56, Jason Porter <lightguard.jp at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>  On Aug 17, 2011, at 18:46, Shane Bryzak <sbryzak at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I've done some work to seam-parent already, removing weld-parent from
>> > the hierarchy, updating all the plugin versions and some general
>> > cleanup.  I have a bunch of questions though, if anyone can answer any
>> > of these it will save me a lot of time:
>> >
>> > 1) Do we require both junit and testng?
>>
>> I think most are using JUnit. I found ftests that use testng though.
>>
>
> That will go away when we switch to Arquillian Drone. The precursor to
> Drone was bound to (or worked more comfortably) with testng. That's not the
> case any longer.
>
> JUnit is a much better choice with Arquillian, atm. The intention is to
> have an equal experience with both, but we are still facing some SPI
> challenges w/ TestNG.
>
> Sadly, that knocks out groups. However, we have plans to put a filtering
> feature at a higher level, in Arquillian itself.
>

I don't really like how JUnit is doing groups, but they do have a comparable
feature now called Categories. I think I can actually say JUnit is moving
forward now (maybe not in a direction we agree with) and TestNG is staying
rather stagnant.


> -Dan
>
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