Serenity BDD using forkCount of maven-failsafe-plugin

[David]

Hello, 

I trying to run multiple test in parallel with serenity and the maven-failsafe-plugin.

I configure the plugin to fork the VM (because I use a spring context that I don't want to be shared between features)

the execution seems ok but the serenity report, after the aggregation, give a new result. Less tests are counted.

I think that the issue is than the aggregation count only the number of test of a fork execution, and not from the whole execution. (Even if the aggregation is run after the build, using serenity:aggregate)

Is Serenity BDD is build to be used in a forked JVM mode ? Or can be used only with parallel execution based on multiple thread ? 

Regards

[David]

anyone try this ? 

I'm the only to try to perform parallel tests using a JVM fork. Do you only use thread parallelism for your tests ? 

Regards

[John Ferguson SmartSmart]

Parallel testing is tricky. I’m writing up an article on a number of different options around parallel testing with Serenity at the moment. This is a configuration in a project I have on hand, using both forks and thread, and works correctly for 4-6 concurrent browsers:

<parallel>classes</parallel>
<threadCount>4</threadCount>
<forkCount>4</forkCount>

Cheers

John.

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[David]

Thanks for your reply.

So if I configure my job to run my tests using the fork mode of failsafe, it _should_ work ?

My question, in fact is : Is serenity is build to run in a fork mode ? 

My last test using our project create a report too different from a non parallel execution. Lot of test marked as pending. I expected to got lot of tests in error instead, as our tests may have some cucrrency issue. But as I got a lot of test in pending in the report, I tend to think that it may a bug in the Serenity reporting (or aggregation ?)

Regards