[seam-dev] seam-parent overhaul

[Dan Allen]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 15:28, Jason Porter <lightguard.jp at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 13:09, Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 20:56, Jason Porter <lightguard.jp at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>  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.
>

The groups in JUnit are incompatible with the Arquillian integration (they
both use the same mechanism, which is a strange way to implement groups).

Both projects are moving forward, but in very different ways.

-Dan

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