[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because JUnit4 is just released and it seemed to me that it wasnt very clear
available in the cvs (as Gump has used only the 'old' 3.8.1), I doubt that
there are many thoughts about integrating JUnit4 into Ant yet.
JUnit4 also needs Java5 due to extensive use of annotations and generics. Ant´s
guideline is to be buildable on JDK1.2. Therefore JUnit4 could be only an
optional add-on - like apt support.
What does Ant with JUnit at this time? Having a JUnitRunner (<junit>) and building a report from that output (<junitformat>). From the user point of view nothing changes. Ant does not use on of the existing JUnit runners (AFAIK) - it implements its own.
We could see how to run JUnit4-tests with that and where enhancements are needed.
If you want to spent time on that you´re welcome ;-)
I concur with Jan here.
I'm personally not happy with the junit4 dev process, and neutral about
the architecture. My (work) colleagues and I don't see what annotations
bring to the table compared to methods of well-known names. Really.
this is actually a recurrent problem with Java5 code -look at EJB, it's
gone overboard in annotating everything rather than just having a few
useful interfaces like "lifecycle". It goes one step worse with
extensions like hibernate, which adds installation-specific tuning
options (like batch fetch size) to the source.
So no, I'm not in a rush to do Junit4 specific work.
Marian,
As it is clearly on your todo list, I would recommend
-getting on the Ant developer mail list.
-start by helping us add java5 specific tests that let us see where the
existing junit runner fails. We can selectively run these.
-see what tweaks we need to do to the testrunner and reporting XSL sheets.
Despite Jan's Java1.2+ warning, we can add support for Java5 in
something optional, that is classes that only get built in java1.5, or
via introspecation. This cannot be at the expense of older systems,
however; the old runner must remain.
-steve
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