Curious: What about folks who rely on other frameworks like TestNG? Gary
On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM Romain Manni-Bucau <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to start a thread about potentially dropping surefire totally. > The rational is that surefire (and failsafe) are mainly an abstraction > layer on top of main test providers. > However, since JUnit5 the platform/engine is itself such an abstraction > layer and a runner. > > On another side, testng and junit4 are slowly getting abandonned - even EE > TCK started to move. > > In terms of additional features we do have the maven site integratoin - but > I doubt it is much used outside and to be honest it can be replaced with a > github/dev-factory link with more benefit these days. > > So overall I think we can converge by dropping surefire plugin in favor of > a thin wrapper of junit5 console runner ([1]). > > Short terms I'm sure Christian could help us getting something fast based > on its implementation ([2] - including a small surefire compatibility mode) > and long term it will reduce the maintenance cost we do have for a very > poor gain in current world (site and remoting are no more key features > thanks the CI and doc evolution). > > Wdyt? Is maven 4 the mometum to do it? > > [1] > https://docs.junit.org/current/user-guide/#running-tests-console-launcher > [2] https://github.com/sormuras/junit-platform-maven-plugin > > Romain Manni-Bucau > @rmannibucau <https://x.com/rmannibucau> | .NET Blog > <https://dotnetbirdie.github.io/> | Blog <https://rmannibucau.github.io/> | > Old > Blog <http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com> | Github > <https://github.com/rmannibucau> | LinkedIn > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau> | Book > <https://www.packtpub.com/en-us/product/java-ee-8-high-performance-9781788473064> > Javaccino founder (Java/.NET service - contact via linkedin) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
