I'm having some problems when defining inner classes in a Test class inherited from TestCase, for JUnit 3. Scenario is like following:
Foo.java
public class Foo {
public void method() { ... }
}
FooTest.java
public class FooTest extends TestCase {
public class Bar extends Foo {
public void method() { ... }
}
public void testMethod() { ... }
}
Now, if I run this from Eclipse, the tests run ok, but if I try to run from an Ant task it fails:
[junit] junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: Class Foo$Bar has no public constructor TestCase(String name) or TestCase()
Bar is NOT a Test class, it's just a subclass of Foo overriding some method that I don't need to do the real stuff when testing.
I'm quite lost at the moment and I don't know how to approach this problem. Is the only way to create the subclasses as standalone?
This is because you included a nested class into junit fileset.
Add an "excludes" property to your build.xml.
For example:
<target name="test" depends="test-compile">
<junit>
<batchtest todir="${test.build.dir}" unless="testcase">
<fileset dir="${test.build.classes}"
includes = "**/Test*.class"
excludes = "**/*$*.class"/>
</batchtest>
</junit>
</target>
You could try defining the Bar class as static:
public class FooTest extends TestCase {
public static class Bar extends Foo {
public void method() { ... }
}
public void testMethod() { ... }
}
... but the fact that it works in one environment but not in another suggests one of two things:
Java version
Classpath
[Edit: as suggested by Jim below] Different versions of junit.jar
I'm feeling like a necrposter, but the thing is that I've ran into similar problem with maven today.
Usual mvn test runs well but when I want run tests from specific package like mvn test -Dtest=com.test.* - initializationError is thrown. This "works" for both Junit 3 and 4.
I found the reason for my maven-case, this may be the same for ant.
The thing is: by default maven's test plugin (surefire that is) considers only specific subset of all classes as "test-classes", namely searching them by name, like *Test and so on (you can read about this at surefire's home page).When we define test property we completely override default behavior. This means that with -Dtest=com.test.* surefire will pick up not only com.test.MyTestClass but also com.test.MyTestClass.InnerClass and even com.test.MyTestClass$1 (i.e. anonymous classes).
So in order to run e.g. classes from some package you should use something like -Dtest=com.test.*Test (if you use suffixes for identifying test-classes of course).
You can also annotate the nested class #Ignore if you don't want to exclude all inner classes.
Related
I have a Java project that defines test suites based off of test categories and want to create a JUnit (version 4.12) Run/Debug Configuration to execute specific test suites in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2019.2
The test category/suite definitions look like this:
public class TestCategories {
public interface ResourceTest {}
#RunWith(Categories.class)
#Categories.IncludeCategory(ResourceTest.class)
#Suite.SuiteClasses(AllTests.class)
public static class ResourceTestSuite {}
#RunWith(Categories.class)
#Categories.ExcludeCategory({ResourceTest.class})
#Suite.SuiteClasses(AllTests.class)
public static class UnitTestSuite {}
#RunWith(ClasspathSuite.class)
#ClasspathSuite.SuiteTypes({SuiteType.RUN_WITH_CLASSES, SuiteType.TEST_CLASSES, SuiteType.JUNIT38_TEST_CLASSES})
public static class AllTests {}
}
This is pulled into my project as an ivy dependency and I am not able to change it. A sample test class in my project might look like this:
public class TestClass {
#Test
#Category(ResourceTest.class)
public void resourceTest() { ... }
#Test
public void unitTest() { ... }
}
I can create a JUnit Run/Debug Configuration that successfully executes the ResourceTest category by setting Test kind to "Category" and Category to "com.mjames.test.category.TestCategories$ResourceTest":
Run/Debug Configuration
I have tried using Test kind Category, Pattern, and Class to execute the ResourceTestSuite, and have not gotten it to work. In the case of ResourceTestSuite, it's not terribly important because executing the ResourceTest category is equivalent, but the definition of UnitTestSuite is all tests that are not in the ResourceTest category. How do I create a Run/Debug Configuration to execute that test suite?
Here is the Run configuration that works correct for me to run the ResourceTestSuite
As for the second case:
UnitTestSuite will run in case AllTests class and UnitTestSuite class itself are annotated with #Category(ResourceTest.class). Otherwise the test execution will fail with exception like:
java.lang.Exception: class 'pack.AllTests' (possibly indirectly) contains itself as a SuiteClass
You may also try running the UnitTestSuite with #Suite.SuiteClasses(TestClass.class)
I am aware that I can make a TestSuite enumerating all the classes that I want, for example:
#RunWith(Suite.class)
#SuiteClasses({SQLServerTests1.class, SQLServerTest2.class, ... })
public class AllSQLServerTests {}
However I have almost 100+ classes and I don't want to have to remember to include any new one in the #SuiteClasses annotation.
As my classes have a naming convention (starting with "SQLServer" for example) I am searching for a way to do something like this:
#RunWith(Suite.class)
#SuiteClasses(prefix="SQLServer")
public class AllSQLServerTests {}
is it possible with plain JUnit? with spring or any other framework?
Tag'em
You can add many tags to each test or test class:
#Test
#Tag("red")
#Tag("production")
public void testWithColour() {...}
#RunWith(JUnitPlatform.class)
#IncludeTags("red & !production")
public class JUnit5Example {
//...
}
You can also use #ExcludeTags but it cannot co-exist with #IncludeTags
Run all in test package
#RunWith(JUnitPlatform.class)
#SelectPackages("com.acme.megaproduct.slowtests")
public class JUnit5Example {
//...
}
Write custom Test Runner
Perhaps none of the above can acommodate your needs, in which case you can add custom filtering by writing your own runner.
See here for step by step how to do it.
Then you just use it like:
#RunWith(MyCustomRunner.class)
public class CustomTestSuite {
//...
}
I need to know the suite class that included the currently running JUnit test. For example, if you have
#SuiteClasses({SubSuite.class})
class ParentSuite { }
#SuiteClasses({TestCase.class})
class SubSuite { }
class TestCase {
#Test
public void testMethod() { }
}
and execute ParentSuite with JUnit, then I want to get a reference to ParentSuite.class. Is this possible?
There is the TestWatcher rule that gets you an instance of Description, which is kind of in the right direction, but that does not include the suite class.
I know this is probably not the best way to write unit tests. My original problem is to run a validation on all classes that are in the project under test, but not those of the dependencies. The TestCase will be in a dependency and included by test suites in other projects. The only solution I could think of is filter those classes with the same source location as that of the top-most-suite. To make that more clear:
BaseLibrary
* contains TestCase and TestSuite
* has classes that should not be validated
ConsumerProject
* has a test-scoped and test-classified dependency to BaseLibrary
* contains ParentSuite
* has classes that should be validated
You probably want to use JUnit #Category https://github.com/junit-team/junit/wiki/Categories
Here's a blog on how to make Categories https://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/2010/04/25/grouping-tests-using-junit-categories-0
This way you can make Categories for each of your projects.
public interface ConsumerProject {}
Then you can use the #Category annotation to mark test classes (or even test methods) as being in particular categories:
#Category(ConsumerProject.class)
public class TestCase { ... }
Then your suites can be set up to run all the tests for particular categories
#RunWith(Categories.class)
#IncludeCategory(ConsumerProject.class)
#SuiteClasses( { ....})
public class ConsumerProjectSuite { }
You can even have the same test get marked with multiple categories
#Category({ConsumerProject.class, OtherProject.class})
public class CommonTests { }
How to unit test private (means with package visibility) classed in java?
I have a package, only one class is public in this package, other classes are private. How to cover other classed with unit tests? I would like to include unit tests in resting jar.
Create the unit test class in the same package.
For example, If com.example.MyPrivateClass located in src/main/java/com/example/MyPrivateClass.java
Then the test class will be in same package com.example.MyPrivateClassTestCase and will be located in src/test/java/com/example/MyPrivateClassTestCase.java
There are two ways to do this.
The standard way is to define your test class in the same package of the class to be tested. This should be easily done as modern IDE generates test case in the same package of the class being tested by default.
The non-standard but very useful way is to use reflection. This allows you to define private methods as real "private" rather than "package private". For example, if you have class.
class MyClass {
private Boolean methodToBeTested(String argument) {
........
}
}
You can have your test method like this:
class MyTestClass {
#Test
public void testMethod() {
Method method = MyClass.class.getDeclaredMethod("methodToBeTested", String.class);
method.setAccessible(true);
Boolean result = (Boolean)method.invoke(new MyClass(), "test parameter");
Assert.assertTrue(result);
}
}
As indicated in #Kowser's answer, the test can be in the same package.
In Eclipse, and I assume other IDEs, one can have classes in different projects but in the same package. A project can be declared to depend on another project, making the other project's classes available. That permits a separate unit test project that depends on the production project and follows its package structure, but has its own root directory.
That structure keeps the test code cleanly separated from production code.
Is there any way to group tests in JUnit, so that I can run only some groups?
Or is it possible to annotate some tests and then globally disable them?
I'm using JUnit 4, I can't use TestNG.
edit: #RunWith and #SuiteClasses works great. But is it possible to annotate like this only some tests in test class? Or do I have to annotate whole test class?
JUnit 4.8 supports grouping:
public interface SlowTests {}
public interface IntegrationTests extends SlowTests {}
public interface PerformanceTests extends SlowTests {}
And then...
public class AccountTest {
#Test
#Category(IntegrationTests.class)
public void thisTestWillTakeSomeTime() {
...
}
#Test
#Category(IntegrationTests.class)
public void thisTestWillTakeEvenLonger() {
...
}
#Test
public void thisOneIsRealFast() {
...
}
}
And lastly,
#RunWith(Categories.class)
#ExcludeCategory(SlowTests.class)
#SuiteClasses( { AccountTest.class, ClientTest.class })
public class UnitTestSuite {}
Taken from here: https://community.oracle.com/blogs/johnsmart/2010/04/25/grouping-tests-using-junit-categories-0
Also, Arquillian itself supports grouping:
https://github.com/weld/core/blob/master/tests-arquillian/src/test/java/org/jboss/weld/tests/Categories.java
Do you want to group tests inside a test class or do you want to group test classes? I am going to assume the latter.
It depends on how you are running your tests. If you run them by Maven, it is possible to specify exactly what tests you want to include. See the Maven surefire documentation for this.
More generally, though, what I do is that I have a tree of test suites. A test suite in JUnit 4 looks something like:
#RunWith(Suite.class)
#SuiteClasses({SomeUnitTest1.class, SomeUnitTest2.class})
public class UnitTestsSuite {
}
So, maybe I have a FunctionTestsSuite and a UnitTestsSuite, and then an AllTestsSuite which includes the other two. If you run them in Eclipse you get a very nice hierarchical view.
The problem with this approach is that it's kind of tedious if you want to slice tests in more than one different way. But it's still possible (you can for example have one set of suites that slice based on module, then another slicing on the type of test).
To handle the globally disabling them, JUnit (4.5+) has two ways One is to use the new method assumeThat. If you put that in the #BeforeClass (or the #Before) of a test class, and if the condition fails, it will ignore the test. In the condition you can put a system property or something else that can be globally set on or off.
The other alternative is to create a custom runner which understands the global property and delegates to the appropriate runner. This approach is a lot more brittle (since the JUnit4 internal runners are unstable and can be changed from release to release), but it has the advantage of being able to be inherited down a class hierarchy and be overridden in a subclass. It is also the only realistic way to do this if you have to support legacy JUnit38 classes.
Here is some code to do the custom Runner. Regarding what getAppropriateRunnerForClass might do, the way I implemented it was to have a separate annotation that tells the custom runner what to run with. The only alternative was some very brittle copy paste from the JUnit code.
private class CustomRunner implements Runner
private Runner runner;
public CustomRunner(Class<?> klass, RunnerBuilder builder) throws Throwable {
if (!isRunCustomTests()) {
runner = new IgnoredClassRunner(klass);
} else {
runner = getAppropriateRunnerForClass(klass, builder);
}
public Description getDescription() {
return runner.getDescription();
}
public void run(RunNotifier notifier) {
runner.run(notifier);
}
}
EDIT: The #RunWith tag only works for a whole class. One way to work around that limiation is to move the test methods into a static inner class and annotate that. That way you have the advantage of the annotation with the organization of the class. But, doing that won't help with any #Before or #BeforeClass tags, you will have to recreate those in the inner class. It can call the outer class's method, but it would have to have its own method as a hook.
In JUnit 5 you can declare #Tag for filtering tests, either at the class or method level; analogous to test groups in TestNG or Categories in JUnit 4
From the javadoc :
tags are used to filter which tests are executed for a given test
plan. For example, a development team may tag tests with values such
as "fast", "slow", "ci-server", etc. and then supply a list of tags to
be used for the current test plan, potentially dependent on the
current environment.
For example you could declare a test class with a "slow" #Tag that will be inherited for all methods and override it for some methods if required :
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Tag;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
#Tag("slow")
public class FooTest{
//
#Test
void loadManyThings(){
...
}
#Test
void loadManyManyThings(){
...
}
#Test
#Tag("fast")
void loadFewThings(){
...
}
}
You could apply the same logic for other test classes.
In this way test classes (and methods too) belongs to a specific tag.
As a good practice instead of copying and pasting #Tag("fast") and #Tag("slow") throughout the test classes, you can create custom composed annotations.
For example :
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Tag;
#Target({ ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD })
#Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
#Tag("slow")
public #interface Slow {
}
and use it as :
#Test
#Slow
void slowProcessing(){
...
}
To enable or disable test marked with a specific tag during the text execution you can rely on the maven-surefire-plugin documentation :
To include tags or tag expressions, use groups.
To exclude tags or tag expressions, use either excludedGroups.
Just configure in your pom.xml the plugin according to your requirement (example of the doc) :
<build>
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.22.0</version>
<configuration>
<groups>acceptance | !feature-a</groups>
<excludedGroups>integration, regression</excludedGroups>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
For information the test goal documentation is not updated.
Try JUnit Test Groups. From documentation :
#TestGroup("integration")
public class MyIntegrationTest {
#ClassRule
public static TestGroupRule rule = new TestGroupRule();
...
}
Execute a simple test group: -Dtestgroup=integration
Execute multiple test groups: -Dtestgroup=group1,group2
Execute all test groups: -Dtestgroup=all
You can create test Suite objects that contain groups of tests. Alternatively, your IDE (like Eclipse) may have support for running all the tests contained in a given package.
You can Use Test Suite(http://qaautomated.blogspot.in/2016/09/junit-test-suits-and-test-execution.html) or you can Junit Categories(http://qaautomated.blogspot.in/2016/09/junit-categories.html) for grouping your test cases effectively.