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I am currently using JUnit 4 and have a need to divide my tests into groups that can be run selectively in any combination. I know TestNG has a feature to annotate tests to assign them to groups, but I can't migrate to TestNG right now. It seems this could easily be accomplished in JUnit with some custom annotations and a custom JUnit TestRunner. I've checked both the JUnit docs and searched the web but couldn't find such a thing. Is anyone aware of such a TestRunner?
Update: Thanks for your replies regarding test suites. I should have addressed these in my original question. Here we go: I don't want to use test suites because they would require me to manually create and manage them, which means touching ALL my tests and arranging them into suites manually (too much work and a maintenance nightmare). All I need to do is run all unit tests, except a few that are really integration tests. So I want to annotate these, and run all others. At other times, I want to just run the integration tests. I also have the need to put a unit test into multiple groups, which is not possible with suites. Hope this helps to clear things up.
Update 2: If JUnit doesn't have this OOB, I'm looking for an Open Source library that adds this to JUnit (annotations + custom JUnit Test Runner).
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JUnit test suites help to grouping and executing tests in bulk. Executing tests separately for all test classes is not desired in most cases. Test suites help in achieving this grouping. In JUnit, test suites can be created and executed with these annotations.
Explanation. JUnit provides Test runners for running tests. JUnit tests can be run automatically and they check their own results and provide immediate feedback.
class) This annotation is helpful whenever we want to test multiple classes at once. In this case we do not need to run each individual class for testing.
JUnit has no such runner at the moment. Addressing the underlying issue, the need to get reasonable assurance from a test suite in a limited amount of time, is our highest development priority for the next release. In the meantime, implementing a Filter that works through annotations seems like it wouldn't be a big project, although I'm biased.
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