How to run plain old JUnit tests in Android Studio

Question

I want to test some regular classes and methods that have nothing to do with Android, with JUnit in Android Studio 1.1.0

In the test package I have the following class:

public class ParametrizedStaticMapsRequestTest extends TestCase {


    @SmallTest
    public void testBuildingStaticMapsRequestURL() {
        System.out.println("asd");
    }


}

But when I try to run it, I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: junit/textui/ResultPrinter
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:191)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:116)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: junit.textui.ResultPrinter
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
    ... 3 more

I read on the internet that this happens because Im trying to run it as an Android Test. I want to run it as a plain old JUnit test, like I was able to do in Eclipse. What do I do?

Answer 1

Here's one way to do it using an official but experimental functionality: link