Dedicated display of Surefire running tests
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Description
### New feature, improvement proposal
Given that #789 remains unsolved, I doubt there is any immediate prospect of extra functionality being added, but just in case:
On a large multimodule reactor with lots of expensive tests run by Surefire, using `mvnd` rather than `mvn` (or `mvnd --serial`) has a major downside: most of the time the display is uninformative about actual progress because it just shows
```
:some-module surefire:3.5.2:test (default-test)
```
for minutes on end. Whereas running a serial tool would display
```
…
[INFO] Running com.acme.SomeTest
[INFO] Running com.acme.SomeOtherTest
[INFO] Running com.acme.YetAnotherTest
[INFO] Tests run: 17, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 99.123 s -- in com.acme.SomeTest
…
```
in real time. It would be very nice if `mvnd` in parallel mode showed some compact indicator like
```
:some-module surefire:3.5.2:test (default-test) 240✅ 3❌ 11⊖ SomeOtherTest, YetAnotherTest, …3 more
```
updated live so you can see which tests are being run and the running totals (pass/fail/skip). I presume this would require Surefire to emit some sort of event which the Maven core API does not yet define.
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Research direction
Start with the Surefire output and Maven core API limitation described in the issue, then determine whether a test-progress event can be exposed to mvnd. Done means parallel builds show a live compact indicator with running tests and pass, fail, and skip totals.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100