Exclude some JUnit tests from automated test suite

Question

When writing code that interacts with external resources (such as using a web service or other network operation), I often structure the classes so that it can also be \"stu

Answer 1

I recommend using junit categories. See this blog for details : https://community.oracle.com/blogs/johnsmart/2010/04/25/grouping-tests-using-junit-categories-0.

Basically, you can annotate some tests as being in a special category and then you can set up a two test suites : one that runs the tests of that category and one that ignores tests in that category (but runs everything else)

@Category(IntegrationTests.class)
public class AccountIntegrationTest {

  @Test
  public void thisTestWillTakeSomeTime() {
    ...
   }

  @Test
  public void thisTestWillTakeEvenLonger() {
     ....
  }

}

you can even annotate individual tests"

public class AccountTest {

   @Test
   @Category(IntegrationTests.class)
   public void thisTestWillTakeSomeTime() {
     ...
    }

Anytime I see something manually getting turned on or off I cringe.