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Benedict Elliott Smith edited comment on CASSANDRA-16630 at 5/3/21, 6:33 AM:
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I suppose we could also create new test roots with new dependencies across all
supported releases, and if we intend to make refactors or cleanups, to just
patch every version's tests to the new dependency root, supporting people who
want to do this useful work while reducing the merge pain that accumulates so
often for others (only those rebasing might be hurt a bit by this, so it should
be infrequent, if a bit more painful)
was (Author: benedict):
I suppose we could also create new test roots with new dependencies across all
supported releases, and if we intend to make refactors or cleanups, to just
patch every version to use the new dependencies, supporting people who want to
do this useful work while reducing the merge pain that accumulates so often for
others.
> Migrate to JUnit5
> -----------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-16630
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16630
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Test/unit
> Reporter: Alexey Zotov
> Assignee: Alexey Zotov
> Priority: Low
>
> h3. Overview
> Currently C* uses JUnit4 (version 4.12) which is obsolete. There is a newer
> version 4.13.2 which we could update to. However, JUnit4 is generally
> considered to be outdated and it is reasonable to migrate to JUnit5.
> Despite of having a syntax sugar in JUnit5 (assertThrow, lamda's support,
> ect), there are no blockers that push us to move from JUnit4. The main
> motivation for this initiative is rule of thumb to use up-to-date versions of
> the dependencies.
> Obviously this change is not backward compatible with the open PRs and
> previous C* versions. Therefore, it will require an additional effort for
> backporting the changes and updating PRs that have tests. However, I believe
> it should not be a blocker for this initiative.
> h3. Scope (preliminary list)
> # change JUnit4 to JUnit5 dependencies and make necessary changes in ant
> tasks (https://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/junitlauncher.html)
> # update syntax in all tests (imports, Before/After annotations, etc)
> # update parameterized tests
> # create a new version of {{OrderedJUnit4ClassRunner}} and update
> corresponding tests
> # update tests that use {{BMUnitRunner}} (as per
> https://developer.jboss.org/docs/DOC-52953 it supports JUnit5)
> # update tests with {{@Rule}}
> # update tests with expected exceptions
> # update {{JStackJUnitTask}}
> # update formatters
> # create a separate ticket to migrate to {{ant-junitlauncher-1.10.11}} (once
> it is released) and simplify {{JStackJUnitTask}} after
> https://github.com/apache/ant/pull/147
> h3. Order of operations
> In order to make the transition more smooth we want to use a phased approach:
> # migrate to JUnit5 with [Vintage
> Engine|https://junit.org/junit5/docs/current/user-guide/#dependency-metadata-junit-vintage],
> so all JUnit4 tests work as is
> # update tests in a few bunches (to not have a huge single PR with numerous
> conflicts)
> # disable (remove dependency) Vintage Engine, so only JUnit5 tests work
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