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🚀 New and noteworthy

🌟 Rule Changes

Several rules for unit testing have been renamed to better reflect their actual scope. Lots of them were called after JUnit / JUnit 4, even when they applied to JUnit 5 and / or TestNG.

• java/bestpractices/JUnit4TestShouldUseAfterAnnotation has been renamed to {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestShouldUseAfterAnnotation %}

• java/bestpractices/JUnit4TestShouldUseBeforeAnnotation has been renamed to {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestShouldUseBeforeAnnotation %}

• java/bestpractices/JUnit4TestShouldUseTestAnnotation has been renamed to {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestShouldUseTestAnnotation %}

• java/bestpractices/JUnitAssertionsShouldIncludeMessage has been renamed to {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestAssertionsShouldIncludeMessage %}

• java/bestpractices/JUnitTestContainsTooManyAsserts has been renamed to {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestContainsTooManyAsserts %}

• java/bestpractices/JUnitTestsShouldIncludeAssert has been renamed to {% rule java/bestpractices/UnitTestsShouldIncludeAssert %}

🐛 Fixed Issues

• java-bestpractices
  • #4278: [java] UnusedPrivateMethod FP with Junit 5 @MethodSource and default factory method name
  • #4975: [java] UnusedPrivateMethod false positive when using @MethodSource on a @Nested test

🚨 API Changes

✨ External Contributions

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