How to run JUnit test cases from the command line

Question

I would like to run JUnit test cases from the command line. How can I do this?

Answer 1

In windows it is

java -cp .;/path/junit.jar org.junit.runner.JUnitCore TestClass [test class name without .class extension]

for example: c:\>java -cp .;f:/libraries/junit-4.8.2 org.junit.runner.JUnitCore TestSample1 TestSample2 ... and so on, if one has more than one test classes.

-cp stands for class path and the dot (.) represents the existing classpath while semi colon (;) appends the additional given jar to the classpath , as in above example junit-4.8.2 is now available in classpath to execute JUnitCore class that here we have used to execute our test classes.

Above command line statement helps you to execute junit (version 4+) tests from command prompt(i-e MSDos).

Note: JUnitCore is a facade to execute junit tests, this facade is included in 4+ versions of junit.