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Benedict Elliott Smith commented on CASSANDRA-16630:
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I think for simple code cleanups to existing test classes, it's a difficult
balancing act. I think as far as possible the old code should be left intact,
as maintaining tests across multiple release versions can be very painful.
However, we have a lot of _bad_ tests, so if we're dealing with more than a
simple cleanup, i.e. heavily rearchitecting the test to improve reliability or
informational utility, it might be worth doing it across all versions (with
whatever dependencies are universal), or else introducing new replacement
classes/methods alongside the old ones, and deprecating or removing the old
methods in newer releases, if it would be painful to backport.
> Migrate to JUnit5
> -----------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-16630
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16630
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Test/unit
> Reporter: Alexey Zotov
> Assignee: Alexey Zotov
> Priority: Low
>
> h3. Overview
> Currently C* uses JUnit4 (version 4.12) which is obsolete. There is a newer
> version 4.13.2 which we could update to. However, JUnit4 is generally
> considered to be outdated and it is reasonable to migrate to JUnit5.
> Despite of having a syntax sugar in JUnit5 (assertThrow, lamda's support,
> ect), there are no blockers that push us to move from JUnit4. The main
> motivation for this initiative is rule of thumb to use up-to-date versions of
> the dependencies.
> Obviously this change is not backward compatible with the open PRs and
> previous C* versions. Therefore, it will require an additional effort for
> backporting the changes and updating PRs that have tests. However, I believe
> it should not be a blocker for this initiative.
> h3. Scope (preliminary list)
> # change JUnit4 to JUnit5 dependencies and make necessary changes in ant
> tasks (https://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/junitlauncher.html)
> # update syntax in all tests (imports, Before/After annotations, etc)
> # update parameterized tests
> # create a new version of {{OrderedJUnit4ClassRunner}} and update
> corresponding tests
> # update tests that use {{BMUnitRunner}} (as per
> https://developer.jboss.org/docs/DOC-52953 it supports JUnit5)
> # update tests with {{@Rule}}
> # update tests with expected exceptions
> # update {{JStackJUnitTask}}
> # update formatters
> # create a separate ticket to migrate to {{ant-junitlauncher-1.10.11}} (once
> it is released) and simplify {{JStackJUnitTask}} after
> https://github.com/apache/ant/pull/147
> h3. Order of operations
> In order to make the transition more smooth we want to use a phased approach:
> # migrate to JUnit5 with [Vintage
> Engine|https://junit.org/junit5/docs/current/user-guide/#dependency-metadata-junit-vintage],
> so all JUnit4 tests work as is
> # update tests in a few bunches (to not have a huge single PR with numerous
> conflicts)
> # disable (remove dependency) Vintage Engine, so only JUnit5 tests work
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