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Miguel Ribeiro
Miguel Ribeiro

Reputation: 8184

Choose order to execute JUnit tests

I wanted to choose the order to execute the JUnit tests. I have 4 classes with several test methods in it, my goal is to execute, for instance, method Y of class A, then method X from class B, and finally method Z from class A.

Would you help please?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 36852

Answers (9)

Shahrear Bin Amin
Shahrear Bin Amin

Reputation: 1115

You can do this like with @Order annotation

@TestMethodOrder(MethodOrderer.OrderAnnotation.class)
public class MyTest {
     
    @Test
    @Order(1)
    @DisplayName("First")
    public void firstTest() {
        System.out.println("a");
    }
     
    @Test
    @Order(2)
    @DisplayName("Second")    
    public void secondTest() {
        System.out.println("b");

    }
  
    @Test
    @Order(3)  
    @DisplayName("Third")  
    public void thirdTest() {
        System.out.println("c");
    }
}

Output

a
b
c

Upvotes: 1

Rittik Bhowmick
Rittik Bhowmick

Reputation: 1

You can use @Order() annotation

Upvotes: 0

Lorenzo Conserva
Lorenzo Conserva

Reputation: 1036

From version 4.11 you can specify execution order using annotations and ordering by method name:

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.FixMethodOrder;
import org.junit.runners.MethodSorters;

@FixMethodOrder(MethodSorters.NAME_ASCENDING)
public class MyTest {

    @Test
    public void test1Create() {
        System.out.println("first");
    }

    @Test
    public void test2Update() {
        System.out.println("second");
    }
}

See JUnit 4.11 Release Notes

Upvotes: 27

nomail
nomail

Reputation: 21

The general remark/idea that testing can be done in any arbitrary order is too strong.

It really depends on what you are testing.

For example I am testing a server where we have a changePassword action.

I think it is obvious that the order of tests is critical. After changePassword, the old password does not work anymore, and before, it does.

I don't want to revert the server state after each test, too much work. I can do it one time after all tests have been completed.

Upvotes: 2

Geniedesalpages
Geniedesalpages

Reputation: 418

This might be interesting to you: JExample

A different approach to testing with interdepentent tests.

Upvotes: 0

Jeff Storey
Jeff Storey

Reputation: 57192

In general, you can't specify the order that separate unit tests run in (though you could specify priorities in TestNG and have a different priority for each test). However, unit tests should be able to be run in isolation, so the order of the tests should not matter. This is a bad practice. If you need the tests to be in a specific order, you should be rethinking your design. If you post specifics as to why you need the order, I'm sure we can offer suggestions.

Upvotes: 22

Kelly S. French
Kelly S. French

Reputation: 12334

Create a TestSuite and call the test methods in the desired order. @Yishai is right in that JUnit is designed so each test is independent. So if you are calling test methods that can be run independently then there should be no problem with creating a TestSuite to cover a scenario for a specific calling-order.

Upvotes: 2

Adam Gent
Adam Gent

Reputation: 49085

If the previous answer is not satisfying I have noticed with the Sun JVM JUnit always seems to execute unit tests in the order of which they are defined. Obviously this is not a good idea to rely on this.

Upvotes: 0

Yishai
Yishai

Reputation: 91871

The JUnit answer to that question is to create one test method like this:

  @Test public void testAll() {
       classA.y();
       classB.x();
       classA.z();
  }

That is obviously an unsatisfying answer in certain cases (where setup and teardown matter), but the JUnit view of unit testing is that if tests are not independant, you are doing something wrong.

If the above doesn't meet your needs, have a look at TestNG.

Upvotes: 5

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