JUnit: how to avoid “no runnable methods” in test utils classes

Question

I have switched to JUnit4.4 from JUnit3.8. I run my tests using ant, all my tests run successfully but test utility classes fail with \"No runnable methods\" error. The patt

Answer 1

Ant now comes with the skipNonTests attribute which was designed to do exactly what you seem to be looking for. No need to change your base classes to abstract or add annotations to them.