Thanks for your prompt response. We are using junit 3.8 unfortunately. We will look at upgrading version but this patch will work with no upgrades to junit.
On 1/15/10, Stephen Connolly <stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Eh.... Surefire 2.5 (which is in the process of being released) > supports the parallel execution features of JUnit 4.7+ > > If that works for you, no patch required > > -Stephen > > 2010/1/15 Colm O'Donnell <colm.p.odonn...@gmail.com>: >> Hi, >> >> I work for a company that have a large number of junit tests. We have >> migrated from ant to maven recently but are faced with a serious problem >> with respect to the time to execute the tests. We used to execute some >> tests >> in parallel with ant but it was not great and depended on a lot of manual >> effort. Currently we have to disable surefire and revert to calling ant to >> execute the tests. >> >> We have attempted to patch surefire to allow for parallel execution of >> Junit >> tests. And we are wondering if we could submit a patch for this. It >> required >> some small refactorings of the surefire booter classes to create a >> different >> implementation of an interface for each type of booting available . e.g. >> move the content of the method runSuitesInProcess into a class in its own >> right. >> >> It reuses the existing booter functionality to spawn processes and adds >> another for threaded execution. >> So there exists a new class available to booter can scan the test dir and >> find out the number of tests and then divide them up into a configurable >> chunk size and hands chunks of tests to the implementation for the >> selected >> concurrency mode. >> >> Would this approach to sure fire be acceptable? >> And where do I submit our patch? >> >> >> Cheers >> >> Colm >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > -- Sent from my mobile device --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
