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Mastering Software Testing with JUnit 5
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Mastering Software Testing with JUnit 5

by Boni Garcia
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
7h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Meta-annotations

The final part of this section is about the definition of meta-annotations. The JUnit Jupiter annotations can be used in the definition of other annotations (that is, can be used as meta-annotations). That means that we can define our own composed annotation that will automatically inherit the semantics of its meta-annotations. This feature is very convenient to create our custom test taxonomy by reusing the JUnit 5 annotation @Tag.

Let's see an example. Consider the following classification for test cases, in which we classify all tests as functional and non-functional, and then we make another level under the non-functional tests:

Example taxonomy for tests (functional and non-functional)

With that scheme in mind, we are ...

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