Excluding tests from being run in IntellIJ

Question

Is it no option to exclude some tests in IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate? I want to run unit tests in IntelliJ but exclude the integration tests. I name the integration tests with *IT.java so the Maven failsafe plugin can run them seperatly from the unit tests.

Answer 1

In the JUnit Run configuration set the Test kind to Pattern, specify the following regular expression as the pattern:

^(?!.*IT$).*$ 

It matches against the class name, so you don't need to match .java extension. Regular expression will not match if the class name ends with IT using the negative lookahead.

Answer 2

With JUnit5, you can now tag your tests, e.g: @Tag("integration-test").

Also, given IntelliJ supports now JUnit5 as well, you can then create a JUnit Test Configuration and select Test Kind: Tags (JUnit5).

To exclude let's say "integration-test", you just need to specify as tags: !integration-test, and IntelliJ will run all your JUnit5 tests except the ones tagged with integration-test.