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Junit Toolbox

April 30, 2018

I wanted a way to easily run a subset of my unit tests. We already had categories on each test, and it is possible to limit which tests are run using junit-toolbox, details at https://github.com/MichaelTamm/junit-toolbox

For each test we have one or more categories defined. Each category is a simple Java interface.

@Category(IMyCategory.class, ISmokeTestCategory.class)
@Test
public void testMethod(){
    /// blah
}

To run all tests except those marked with IElkCategory:

@RunWith(WildcardPatternSuite.class)
@SuiteClasses("**/*Tests.class")
@ExcludeCategories(IElkCategory.class)
public class RunAllNoElk {
}

Running this class as a JUnit test kicks off the appropriate test set.

Its also possible to limit the run to only specific categories:

@RunWith(WildcardPatternSuite.class)
@SuiteClasses("**/*Tests.class")
@ExcludeCategories(IElkCategory.class)
@IncludeCategories(ISmokeTestCategory.class)
public class RunSmokeTest {
}

Tags: junit test unittest junittoolbox exclude include