I work on a project that depends on lucene-test-framework for its wonderful test utilities to validate use of text analysis components. The project does not use randomizedtesting's test runners. I want to use some test utilities that I cannot invoke now because they directly/indirectly invoke randomizedtesting which fails because there is no context:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No context information for thread: Thread[id=1, name=main, state=RUNNABLE, group=main]. Is this thread running under a class com.carrotsearch.randomizedtesting.RandomizedRunner runner context? Add @RunWith(class com.carrotsearch.randomizedtesting.RandomizedRunner.class) to your test class. Make sure your code accesses random contexts within @BeforeClass and @afterclass boundary (for example, static test class initializers are not permitted to access random contexts).

Asking users/projects to a specific test runner can be an awkward constraint. For some of my tests, I can use your runner, for some, I cannot because another is used.

When I look at RandomizedContext, there isn't sufficient access for me to manually manage it's lifecycle outside of your runner. I would like this added and/or a JUnit Rule as an option. Such a Rule wouldn't bring all the baggage that RandomizedRunner has -- no thread leak detection. Just provide what this project's namesake is -- randomness. That's all.