Finishing details on a JUnit 4 dynamic suite

Question

Hi – I wanted to automatically sweep JUnit tests into suites as part of my continuous builds, so I derived a runner from JUnit's Suite which finds all test classes in a package. The runner works just fine, but the results display is less than expected.

I have one class in my testing support package with a @RunWith annotation for my runner. The runner works by reading a property to get the package under test. Set the property and tell JUnit to run the annotated class, and all tests in that package are executed. The name of the suite is reported as the name of the class which has the @RunWith annotation, in both Ant and IntelliJ. My runner has an override for ParentRunner.getName() which returns the name of the package under test. I verified that the string gets into the runner's Description object. What am I missing?

Environment:

• JUnit: 4.5
• Ant: 1.7.0
• IntelliJ IDEA: 8.1

Thanks for whatever direction you can provide.

Answer 1

This is because ANT and IntelliJ use their own runners, so they are building the name based on the test, and not getting the name from your runner. In other words, the runner is delegated to for the purpose of running the test, but not for the purpose of describing it.