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Konstantin Boudnik commented on HADOOP-9330:
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bq. Konstantin: I thought the switch from JUnit3 to JUnit4 was driven by the
goal of adding beforeclass/afterclass methods
Partially. However, the most pain has been caused by the need to subclass
{{TestCase}} all the time. Oftentimes it blocked having a common pieces of the
code being isolated in the same superclass for later use in the children, IIRC.
> Add custom JUnit4 test runner with configurable timeout
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> Key: HADOOP-9330
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9330
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Test
> Components: test
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0
> Reporter: Steve Loughran
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> HADOOP-9112 has added a requirement for all new test methods to declare a
> timeout, so that jenkins/maven builds will have better information on a
> timeout.
> Hard coding timeouts into tests is dangerous as it will generate spurious
> failures on slower machines/networks and when debugging a test.
> I propose providing a custom JUnit4 test runner that test cases can declare
> as their test runner; this can provide timeouts specified at run-time, rather
> than in-source.
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