Why must jUnit's fixtureSetup be static?

Question

I marked a method with jUnit\'s @BeforeClass annotation, and got this exception saying it must be static. What\'s the rationale? This forces all my init to be on static fiel

Answer 1

JUnit documentation seems scarce, but I'll guess: perhaps JUnit creates a new instance of your test class before running each test case, so the only way for your "fixture" state to persist across runs is to have it be static, which can be enforced by making sure your fixtureSetup (@BeforeClass method) is static.