I still have some pending local changes that I've started for future proofing the testng / surefire api points but what I have checked in should be both backwards compatible and work with the latest 5.5 version of TestNG.
I don't know if there's been any activity on the mainline trunk version but if possible it'd be nice to try merging these changes to trunk and then deploying it out to the snapshot repos. ? -- Jesse Kuhnert Tapestry/Dojo team member/developer Open source based consulting work centered around dojo/tapestry/tacos/hivemind. http://blog.opencomponentry.com