Find a way to set a default global per-test timeout for Java Java unit tests

[damccorm]

Apparently java unit tests don't have timeouts. And as far as I can tell, Junit lets you set timeouts for individual tests and test classes, but provides no easy way to set a global timeout across multiple classes.

Imported from Jira BEAM-13523. Original Jira may contain additional context.
Reported by: ibzib.

[gpt3ch]

Hello @damccorm , I started looking at this issue. After reading more about this, a way to implement a global timeouts for the unit tests is to create a base test class and specify a Timeout rule in it, then make all the test classes inherit the base test class, this will make all the test cases timeout if they cross the threshold without having to specify @timeout annotation over each test method. Is this an acceptable solution?

[damccorm]

Hey @gpt3ch! That definitely seems reasonable to me, but I also don't have a ton of context on the Java test suites (I just migrated the issue to GitHub, this was originally reported by @ibzib).

Tagging a few folks who might have more context here in case they have thoughts: @ibzib, @klk, @kileys, or @y1chi

[sulthan309]

Hello @damccorm, 'Global declarative Timeout' feature is implemented in Junit from Junit 5.5 version where we can set the global timeout for all the TCs.
Documentation : https://junit.org/junit5/docs/5.5.0/user-guide/index.html#writing-tests-declarative-timeouts (section 2.19.2. Default Timeouts)

[Ashutosh2512]

Hi @damccorm,

Is the issue still relevant or the solution provided by @sulthan309 is acceptable, given it is an experimental feature from JUnit ? If it is relevant, I would like to pick it up.

[damccorm]

I think it is still relevant since as far as I know nobody went and actually added the timeouts.