Support for annotated JUnit @Category

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  Intermediate

The current implementation of Surefire seems to look for explicit @Category annotations in the test classes. And will only consider those. Suppose I'd like to add a more concise annotation for this:

@Category(IntegrationTests.class) <== JUnit @Category
@Target({ElementType.TYPE})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Documented
public @interface IntegrationTest {}

Annotating my test class with @IntegrationTest does not work. Although I think it looks much better than repeating everywhere in my code "@Category(com.foo.bar.IntegrationTests.class)". For which I add an additional dependency in the interface class btw.