The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache
Maven Surefire Plugin, version 2.18
The release contains a number of bug fixes, and introduces an option to
automatically rerun failing tests, including proper reporting on the
console and in the XML reports for the individual runs.
Again we received some much appreciated contributions from the community in
form of bug reports, bug fixes and patches for new features. Thank you and
keep 'em coming!
You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.
plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.18</version>
</plugin>
or for failsafe:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.18</version>
</plugin>
Release Notes - Maven Surefire - Version 2.18
** Bug
* [SUREFIRE-649] - Might be impossible to have empty strings in
systemPropertyVariables element
* [SUREFIRE-941] - TESTS header printed twice when forkMode is always
* [SUREFIRE-963] - Unable to set empty environment variables
* [SUREFIRE-1023] - Report generation fails with
StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
* [SUREFIRE-1028] - Unable to run single test (junit)
* [SUREFIRE-1069] - Typo in alwaysGenerateSurefireReport doc:
"Defaulyts"
* [SUREFIRE-1072] - Duplicate example of commandline in run single test
documentation
* [SUREFIRE-1075] - Addresses to documented mailing lists in Maven site
dead
* [SUREFIRE-1077] - NPE problem will happen if you set testng status to
fail at afterInvocation method
* [SUREFIRE-1078] - Failure running forked mode with TestNG test suites
defined via XML files
* [SUREFIRE-1080] - Use parallel and fork together run some tests
multiple times
* [SUREFIRE-1081] - Doc claims parallel is TestNG only, but rest of doc
implies junit works, too.
* [SUREFIRE-1088] - When test fail during initialization the test
execution time can result in a large negative number.
* [SUREFIRE-1090] - NPE in SmartStacktraceParser if
Thread.contextCassLoader is null
* [SUREFIRE-1091] - IOException when test with much output prints in
@After / @AfterClass - possible haning processes
* [SUREFIRE-1092] - The shutdown hook of parallel computer randomly
prints started tests after timeout overflow
* [SUREFIRE-1095] - NPE in RunListener
* [SUREFIRE-1096] - ClassCastException: Fork test for TestNG with
xmlsuite
* [SUREFIRE-1098] - runOrder=balanced is not working
* [SUREFIRE-1099] - Invalid link ids in surefire-report
* [SUREFIRE-1102] - The module surefire-setup-integration-tests fails
with Maven 3.2.3
* [SUREFIRE-1104] - Internal Maven Surefire IT tests fail with Maven
3.2.x
** Improvement
* [SUREFIRE-1053] - Suppress warning message if file.encoding is set
using argLine
* [SUREFIRE-1097] - improve documentation includes/excludes
* [SUREFIRE-1101] - Surefire does not shutdown thread-pools
programatically after test run has finished.
* [SUREFIRE-1105] - Surefire build should check Java 1.5 API signatures
with JDK version > 5
* [SUREFIRE-1106] - Update to minimum maven 2.2.1
* [SUREFIRE-1108] - Surefire should print parallel tests in progress
been stopped after elapsed timeout
** New Feature
* [SUREFIRE-654] - TestNG: Recognize successful tests when using
invocationCount and successPercentage parameters on the @Test annotation
* [SUREFIRE-1087] - New option rerunFailingTestsCount
* [SUREFIRE-1093] - Exceptional parallel execution on @NotThreadSafe
testcase or suite
Enjoy,
-The Apache Maven team
