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Henning Gross commented on SUREFIRE-952: ---------------------------------------- First the feature. Pretty easy. You just run mvn test on the project I attached. You will see that with 4.12-SNAPSHOT (you need to provide that under our groupId/artifactId to reproduce the bug. Just install the latest SS from https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/ to your repo with foo.platform:junit:4.12_24t_1) the test is ran. Its not annotated but inherits its Category from the abstract test. That is because @Category now is @inherited. The bug(s?) is/are not easy to reproduce/nail down. I dont seem to be able to reproduce the issue we have in our productive project with modules not having a junit-dep failing to "testng or junit>4.7 is required in classpath" but maybe you will find it. The reason why I cant do that can be oberserved when you run mvn -Psf2.3 (which uses surefire 2.3 instead of 2.12.2). It results in a NPE with the following Stacktrace: at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:225) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:320) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352) Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginExecutionException: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:mav en-surefire-plugin:2.3:test failed. at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:110) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:209) ... 19 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.SurefirePlugin.constructSurefireBooter(SurefirePlugin.java:594) at org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.SurefirePlugin.execute(SurefirePlugin.java:391) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:101) Also I noticed that you do not use the Categories-Runner of Junit but instead copy the behaviour. If that is only because of the fact that excludecategory and includecategory did not accept more than one group before: this feature will be introduced in 4.12, too. > Incompatibility with future release 4.12 of junit (Categories) > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: SUREFIRE-952 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-952 > Project: Maven Surefire > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Junit 4.x support > Affects Versions: 2.12.2, 2.12.4 > Reporter: Henning Gross > Priority: Blocker > > Junit is introducing some interesting new features on Categories in 4.12. > @Category will become @Inherited and @ExcludeCategory/@IncludeCategory will > accept a class-array instead of just a single class. As we need these > urgently we are currently testing with the current snapshot of junit > (https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/junit/junit/4.12-SNAPSHOT/). > Unfortuneately the version seems to be incompatible. > All tests are executed always. Regardless of the settings in <groups> or > <excludedgroups>. Using 4.11 works fine. I do not know why this happens and > therefore cannot provide a patch but I would love to see it fixed. If someone > points me at the cause I will happily find a solution. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira