Register EventPublishingTestExecutionListener by default

Closes gh-18490

spring-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/test/context/event/EventPublishingTestExecutionListener.java

@@ -61,14 +61,6 @@
  * support. For further details, consult the class-level Javadoc for
  * {@link org.springframework.context.event.EventListener @EventListener}.
  *
- * <h3>Listener Registration</h3>
- * <p>Note that this {@code TestExecutionListener} is not registered by default,
- * but it may be registered for a given test class via
- * {@link org.springframework.test.context.TestExecutionListeners @TestExecutionListeners}
- * or globally via the {@link org.springframework.core.io.support.SpringFactoriesLoader
- * SpringFactoriesLoader} mechanism (consult the Javadoc and Spring reference manual for
- * details).
- *
  * @author Frank Scheffler
  * @author Sam Brannen
  * @since 5.2

spring-test/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.factories

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Default TestExecutionListeners for the Spring TestContext Framework
 #
 org.springframework.test.context.TestExecutionListener = \
+	org.springframework.test.context.event.EventPublishingTestExecutionListener,\
 	org.springframework.test.context.web.ServletTestExecutionListener,\
 	org.springframework.test.context.support.DirtiesContextBeforeModesTestExecutionListener,\
 	org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener,\

spring-test/src/test/java/org/springframework/test/context/event/EventPublishingTestExecutionListenerIntegrationTests.java

@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
 import org.springframework.test.context.TestContext;
 import org.springframework.test.context.TestContextManager;
 import org.springframework.test.context.TestExecutionListener;
-import org.springframework.test.context.TestExecutionListeners;
 import org.springframework.test.context.event.annotation.AfterTestClass;
 import org.springframework.test.context.event.annotation.AfterTestExecution;
 import org.springframework.test.context.event.annotation.AfterTestMethod;
@@ -193,7 +192,6 @@ public void afterTestClassAnnotation() throws Exception {
 
 	@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
 	@ContextConfiguration(classes = TestEventListenerConfiguration.class)
-	@TestExecutionListeners(EventPublishingTestExecutionListener.class)
 	public static class ExampleTestCase {
 
 		@Traceable

src/docs/asciidoc/testing.adoc

@@ -1659,8 +1659,7 @@ subclasses instead.
 ==== `TestExecutionListener` Configuration
 
 Spring provides the following `TestExecutionListener` implementations that are registered
-exactly in the following order. Except for the `EventPublishingTestExecutionListener`,
-each of these listeners is registered by default.
+by default, exactly in the following order:
 
 * `EventPublishingTestExecutionListener`: Publishes test execution events to the test's
   `ApplicationContext` (see <<testcontext-test-execution-events>>).
@@ -1786,11 +1785,10 @@ be replaced with the following:
 ==== Test Execution Events
 
 The `EventPublishingTestExecutionListener` introduced in Spring Framework 5.2 offers an
-alternative approach to implementing a custom `TestExecutionListener`. If the
-`EventPublishingTestExecutionListener` is <<testcontext-tel-config-registering-tels,
-registered>>, components in the `ApplicationContext` can listen to the following events
-published by the `EventPublishingTestExecutionListener`. Each of these events corresponds
-to a method in the `TestExecutionListener` API.
+alternative approach to implementing a custom `TestExecutionListener`. Components in the
+test `ApplicationContext` can listen to the following events published by the
+`EventPublishingTestExecutionListener`, each of which corresponds to a method in the
+`TestExecutionListener` API.
 
 * `BeforeTestClassEvent`
 * `PrepareTestInstanceEvent`