We have to dig into Junit 5. Surefire is a streamer of classes across the
forks which is our load balancer. Therefore each class is running
separately, pre and post fixtures. If the Junit 5 used Java Streamer
including dome kind of control of fixtures then web would have this issue.

Dňa pi 10. 9. 2021, 18:03 Emond Papegaaij <emond.papega...@gmail.com>
napísal(a):

> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 5:06 PM Tibor Digana <tibordig...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> > If you use forkCount > 1, the Surefire loads test classes via load
> > balancer.
> > If you use default forkCount = 0, all the classes are run eagerly as a
> > suite via JUnit5 Launcher in one shot.
> >
>
> Yes, this is what I saw in the JUnitPlatformProvider. The cause of my
> issues lies in the difference in events triggered by Arquillian due to the
> classes executed one by one. The demo-project attached to the ticket
> demonstrates this in just a few lines of code.
>
> If you are aiming for Arquillian, testing the applications in the
> > application server, you should use maven-failsafe-plugin which has
> another
> > testing model.
> > See the plugin goals of Failsafe plugin. Maven Failsafe Plugin – Plugin
> > Documentation (apache.org)
> > <
> https://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-failsafe-plugin/plugin-info.html>
> > https://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-failsafe-plugin/plugin-info.html
> > There are Maven phases:
> > pre-integration-test
> > integration-test
> > post-integration-test
> > verify
> >
> > Therefore you should start the application server in the phase
> > pre-integration-test.
> > Accordingly, you should stop it in the phase post-integration-test.
> >
> > Then use Failsafe plugin in the phases integration-test and verify.
> >
>
> Unfortunately, this is not how arquillian is setup. You can run tests
> against running servers (which you can then start in pre-integration-test),
> but using arquillian cube, these containers can be started as part of the
> test lifecycle. Also, Arquillian is just a single incarnation of the
> underlying issue. Every extension that takes more than a few seconds to
> start and is built to only initialize once for a suite will trigger this
> same problem (as can be seen by the demo project). As surefire and failsafe
> use the same JUnitPlatformProvider, the problem will also be the same.
>
> What do you think about the solution of using a LauncherSession to bind the
> multiple executions together? This will require JUnit Platform 1.8 and
> changes in the JUnitPlatformProvider. However, I'm not sure what the
> intended audience of LauncherSessionListener is.
>
> Best regards,
> Emond
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 12:42 PM Emond Papegaaij <
> emond.papega...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > First of all, sorry for the lengthy post. I decided to add some context
> > to
> > > explain things a bit, but it resulted in quite a long e-mail. For the
> > past
> > > few weeks I've been trying to come up with a solution for the issue I
> > > filled under SUREFIRE-1935, but I'm getting stuck and starting to feel
> > like
> > > the issue cannot be solved with the current JUnit Platform API. To give
> > > some perspective into why this issue is important for us, I first have
> to
> > > explain a bit about our setup.
> > >
> > > We write our tests in the Spock framework and use Arquillian to run the
> > > tests in the application container. Some of our tests, especially the
> > > Selenium based tests, require quite some setup and tear down. Prior to
> > > starting the test, Arquillian cube builds and starts several docker
> > > containers and the tests are run against these containers. We currently
> > use
> > > the JUnit 4 based Spock 1.3 with Groovy 2.5, but we like to upgrade to
> > > Spock 2 and Groovy 3, which runs on top of the JUnit Platform. For
> this,
> > > I've already started working on a Spock extension that integrates
> Spock 2
> > > in the Arquillian test life cycle [1]. This extension is inspired by
> the
> > > (currently Alpha) JUnit5 module for Arquillian [2]. Both use a global
> > > registration to keep track of the state managed by Arquilllian. This
> will
> > > end up somewhere at the root of the TestPlan (for example see [3]).
> > >
> > > Because our tests are quite extensive, with a total run time of 6
> hours,
> > we
> > > run them with a forkCount of 8, greatly reducing the total duration.
> > > However, this is where SUREFIRE-1935 comes into play. With a forkCount
> >
> > 1,
> > > the entire test life cycle is started over and over again for every
> test
> > > class. This happens in JUnitPlatformProvider at line 197 [4]. This
> > results
> > > in the entire Arquillian suite being torn down and setup for every
> class,
> > > in our case adding several minutes to the execution of every test class
> > > because the docker setup is done over and over again.
> > >
> > > To overcome this issue, the state from one test class execution has to
> be
> > > carried to the next. It seems the LauncherSession (introduced in JUnit
> > 5.8)
> > > is meant to close this gap. However, this would mean my extension would
> > > also need to implement a LauncherSessionListener, and I'm not sure if
> > > extensions are supposed to integrate with the launcher as well. Also,
> for
> > > this surefire would need to start a session prior to the tests, and
> close
> > > it when done. I think this is a good idea anyway when running on
> platform
> > > 1.8 or higher.
> > >
> > > Another solution could be a (sort of) dynamic test that produces the
> > tests
> > > to be run one by one. However, here my knowledge of JUnit really falls
> > > short. I've got no idea of this is even possible.
> > >
> > > I hope someone can help me out on this one and point me in the right
> > > direction, as we like to upgrade our test frameworks and this is
> blocking
> > > us at the moment.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Emond Papegaaij
> > >
> > > [1] Arquillian extension for Spock Framework 2:
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/topicusonderwijs/arquillian-testrunner-spock/tree/spock-2.0-junit5
> > > [2] Arquillian module for JUnit 5:
> > > https://github.com/arquillian/arquillian-core/tree/master/junit5
> > > [3] Registration in root store:
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/arquillian/arquillian-core/blob/master/junit5/core/src/main/java/org/jboss/arquillian/junit5/JUnitJupiterTestClassLifecycleManager.java#L20
> > > [4] JUnitPlatformProvider launching the tests:
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/maven-surefire/blob/master/surefire-providers/surefire-junit-platform/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/junitplatform/JUnitPlatformProvider.java#L197
> > >
> >
>

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