Is there an API compat layer? Doing a wholesale switchover isn't *that* hard, but it's certainly a pain for people. Also painful since many people go back and forth between HBase and other code bases where JUnit is the standard. Not that we can't learn two test frameworks, but there's some value in consistency.
Doesn't the newest JUnit support test groups too? -Todd On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Ryan Rawson <ryano...@gmail.com> wrote: > I filed HBASE-3555, and I listed the following reasons; > > - test groups allow us to separate slow/fast tests from each other > - surefire support for running specific groups would allow 'check in > tests' vs 'hudson/integration tests' (ie fast/slow) > - it supports all the features of junit 4, plus it is VERY similar, > making for the transition easy. > - they have assertEquals(byte[],byte[]) > > What do other people think? > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
