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Ciprian Ciubotariu commented on SUREFIRE-1266:
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Closed the PR following the won't fix resolution here
> Specifying groups shouldn't require junit on classpath if no test classes
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> Key: SUREFIRE-1266
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-1266
> Project: Maven Surefire
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 2.19.1
> Environment: Windows 7, Oracle JDK 1.8.0_40, Maven 3.3.3
> Reporter: Anders Hammar
> Priority: Major
>
> Test framework: junit 4.8+
> I have a scenario where we want to configure the groups parameter in a parent
> so that it doesn't have to be specified in all modules. However, not all
> modules have test classes and therefore no dependency on junit is specified
> in those projects. What then happens is that m-surefire-p fails with:
> {quote}
> groups/excludedGroups require TestNG or JUnit48+ on project test classpath
> {quote}
> This can be worked around by specifying skipTests on those projects, but it's
> a bit cumbersome.
> It would be nice if surefire could detect that there are no test classes
> (src/test/main is empty) and therefore the project should just be ignored.
> However, I guess there could be test classes in a dependency so that might
> not be as easy.
> Possibly the solution could be to not fail the surefire execution if
> groups/excludedGroups is set but TestNG or JUnit 4.8+ is not on the
> classpath, but issue a warning message and ignoring it?
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