Can I force Intellij-IDEA to run an ignored test?

Question

I wrote a performance test class marked as @Ignore because it takes a very long time to run and I don't normally need to run it. I'd like to be able to right click one of the @Tests and say "run" but when I do that in intellij it doesn't run the test because the class is marked as ignored.

I don't want to comment out the @Ignore because it's too easy to accidentally commit the file with the @Ignore removed. But I feel that if I explicitly tell Intellij to run a test it should run it regardless of the @Ignore. Keep in mind, if I run a group of classes (eg: all in a package) I still would want this test class to be ignored.

Is it possible to get this functionality in Intellij?

Answer 1

I found this link which says that you can do something tricky with Assume.assumeTrue that will mark the test as ignored if the condition is false, and normally this is a system property that is used in the condition, so you can pass it in as a parameter on the command line. IntelliJ lets you customize the command line parameters, so it should work, but I haven't tried it myself.

The example from the link is:

@Test
public void shouldTryEveryPossiblePhoneticAttributeSet() throws IOException {
    Assume.assumeTrue(TestEnvironment.hasBigParseSets());
    ...
}

public class TestEnvironment {
   private static final String HAS_BIG_PARSESETS = "hasBigParseSets";
   public static boolean hasBigParseSets(){
      return "true".equalsIgnoreCase(System.getProperty(HAS_BIG_PARSESETS));
   }
}

And "mvn test -P bigParseSets" vs "mvn test".

edit: And I just found this neat thread on StackOverflow that tells how to run a single junit test. I assume I don't need to quote that since it's to a post here on StackOverflow. That explains how to do it from a command line, but you should be able to do something very similar to that one that has hard coded values for the class and method names, and then just right click on the SingleJUnitTestRunner class and ask IntelliJ to run it.