How to deal with relative path in Junits between Maven and Intellij

Question

I have a maven project with a module

/myProject pom.xml     /myModule     pom.xml        /foo        bar.txt 

Consider a Junit in myModule which needs to open bar.txt, with maven the basedir is the module directory.

So to open the file bar.txt :

  new File("foo/bar.txt") 

This works well when you execute mvn test BUT when you launch the same junit in intellij, it fails because Intellij sets the basedir in the project directory, not the module directory.

Intellij tries to open myProject/foo/bar.txt instead of myProject/myModule/foo/bar.txt

Is there a way to deal with that ?

Answer 1

Solution inspired by Guillaume :

In Run->Edit configuration->Defaults->JUnit->Working directory set the value $MODULE_DIR$ and Intellij will set the relative path in all junits just like Maven.