Comments on: New Demo: Using JUnit in NetBeans 4.1

By: socrates

socrates — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:06:24 +0000

Thank you for this fine tutorial. I will send my students to watch it.

By: hebiryu

hebiryu — Wed, 31 May 2006 19:05:57 +0000

thankyou very much for your tutorial

By: fuzzylizard

fuzzylizard — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:36:37 +0000

Yep. Right now, if you use the ant scripts that NetBeans generates you can test a single class. However, if you use a free-form project, this is a very difficult thing to set up. I have looked at the NetBeans ant scripts that allow for this functionality and can’t make any sense out of them. I am not sure if this is due to functionality being hidden in the xml schema that NetBeans uses or not.

It would be very nice to integrate the ability to run individual test classes into the IDE. This would make working with free-form projects a lot easier.

One project I was working on, in order to test just my code I had to switch to Eclipse. If I tried to test my code using NetBeans and my own ant scripts, the script would never get to my test cases as someone else’s would fail. This inability to run single test classes (or random test classes) was the only “but” that my team came across when working with NetBeans. And it made it very difficult for people to test their own code.

By: Roumen

Roumen — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:20:09 +0000

Oh I see, your question is about running a single test from a free-form project, right?

By: Roumen

Roumen — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:44:19 +0000

You can run the test from the projects context menu. Right-click on the test and choose Run File. This launches a single test. No need to change ant scripts for running single tests…

By: fuzzylizard

fuzzylizard — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:28:53 +0000

Very cool. Will there be the ability to run a single JUnit test without having to figure out how to code that capability into an Ant script?

By: Roumen

Roumen — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:04:16 +0000

Hi, graphical output for JUnit is prepared in NetBeans 5.0. I don’t think it’s perfect, but at least it’s a step forward. You won’t have to parse the plain text to find out if a test failed or not in 5.0.