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Running JUnit test

The latest entry on Otaku, Cedric's weblog mentions JUnit and his woes with running them the way he wants (ie subsets of his suites).

We've run into this problem too and here is what we do : our tests are not organized in explicit suites at all. We use a common practice which is to organize the tests in a parallel structure to the classes they test. Then we can use to run tests in each module separatly. We do this when we test for regressions before commiting and for our automatic build.

For development, we have setup Eclipse to be able to run our tests : sometimes we need to tweak the classpath because we have a hierarchical classpath for our tests but it works really well. What does this buy us : we can run tests on classes, packages or even individual methods which is a real boon !

Otherwise, perhaps Artima's SuiteRunner can help ?