With 43 million downloads from Maven Central in 2014 JUnit still is the default testing library for Java. Millions of projects rely on it being both stable and allowing to test the latest features of the latest JDK. Moreover, many other testing libraries hook into JUnit as a way to enable IDE and build tool integration. Keeping JUnit in shape is a major task for those maintaining and evolving the library.
As of today, none of the active JUnit maintainers are payed by their employer to do this work. Not surprisingly many unresolved issues have piled up and, what’s worse, there is no hope to get JUnit to support and make use of all the features in Java 8 any time soon. Since Lambdas are the most prominent of those features, we borrowed their name for the campaign.
This campaign will allow a team of long-time JUnit committers, backed by a few experienced Java developers, to focus on getting JUnit ready for the years—and JDKs—to come.
Click here to know more about JUnit Lambda.
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