How can I make a JUnit test wait?

Question

How about Thread.sleep(2000); ? :)

Thread.sleep() could work in most cases, but usually if you're waiting, you are actually waiting for a particular condition or state to occur. Thread.sleep() does not guarantee that whatever you're waiting for has actually happened.

If you are waiting on a rest request for example maybe it usually return in 5 seconds, but if you set your sleep for 5 seconds the day your request comes back in 10 seconds your test is going to fail.

To remedy this JayWay has a great utility called Awatility which is perfect for ensuring that a specific condition occurs before you move on.

It has a nice fluent api as well

await().until(() -> 
{
    return yourConditionIsMet();
});  

https://github.com/jayway/awaitility

You can use java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit library which internally uses Thread.sleep. The syntax should look like this :

@Test
public void testExipres(){
    SomeCacheObject sco = new SomeCacheObject();
    sco.putWithExipration("foo", 1000);

    TimeUnit.MINUTES.sleep(2);

    assertNull(sco.getIfNotExipred("foo"));
}

This library provides more clear interpretation for time unit. You can use 'HOURS'/'MINUTES'/'SECONDS'.

In case your static code analyzer (like SonarQube) complaints, but you can not think of another way, rather than sleep, you may try with a hack like: Awaitility.await().pollDelay(Durations.ONE_SECOND).until(() -> true); It's conceptually incorrect, but it is the same as Thread.sleep(1000).

The best way, of course, is to pass a Callable, with your appropriate condition, rather than true, which I have.

https://github.com/awaitility/awaitility

If it is an absolute must to generate delay in a test CountDownLatch is a simple solution. In your test class declare:

private final CountDownLatch waiter = new CountDownLatch(1);

and in the test where needed:

waiter.await(1000 * 1000, TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS); // 1ms

Maybe unnecessary to say but keeping in mind that you should keep wait times small and not cumulate waits to too many places.