Re: Externally activated (global) rules

Henning,

Sorry for the lack of response. JUnit is maintained by volunteers, and
sometimes our day jobs get busy. I was waiting for David to respond (I am a
sometimes contributor) but here are my thoughts.

This is an interesting idea. Note that you could get what you want with a
custom runner.

My concern with adding Rules via system properties that someone running the
tests in their IDE would see different results compared to the test runs
from Maven. Sure, you could tell your IDE to run the tests with the same
system properties, but it would be unexpected for most people to have to
take a special step to make the tests run the same way as they did in the
continuous build.

Could you find some way to define the global rules via code? Perhaps you
could add a DynamicRule to all of your tests that could apply the addition
rules. Alternatively, you could have a class in the same package as the
tests that defined the global rules for tests in that package (though I'm
not sure there is a platform-independent way to scan all of the classes in
a package that works for all runtime/deployment environments)

-- Kevin


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Henning Groß <[email protected]>wrote:

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>
> Hi!
> I have a use-case where I need to enable rules based on external
> parameters. Therefore I cannot activate them in code. I have submitted a
> pull request:
>
> https://github.com/junit-team/junit/pull/668/files
>
> There are some little things to fix but its an easy and functional
> extension. Anyone mind to fix the code to a state that will get merged? I
> did not get any feedback until now. Whole team in holidays?
>
> Also I am wondering when 4.12 will be released. Any plans?
>
> Regards and thank you!
> Henning.
>
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