How to solve “Cause: the class org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTask was not found.” while running “ant test”?

Question

I have a target named test and I want to do some tests.

I put here the important parts in build.xml. It includes:

Answer 1

this has nothing to do with Ant classpath itself. It is properties you can use in your tasks. You have to put jars to the suggested dirs or add command line argument.

Try running it like this:

ant -lib /path/to/the/ant-junit.jar/ test