Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit, 3rd Edition

Chapter 7Executing JUnit Tests

You learned about assertions, test organization, and the JUnit lifecycle of execution earlier in this part of the book.

Having all the tests in the world is useless if you never run them. You’ll want to run tests often as you build software on your own machine like you’ve been doing so far. But you’ll also want to run them as part of the process of vetting integrated software before deploying it, perhaps as part of a continuous build process.

In this chapter, you’ll learn “when,” “what,” and more of the “how” of running tests:

• What set of unit tests you’ll want to run when executing JUnit

• Grouping tests using the JUnit @Tag annotation, which allows you to execute arbitrary groups of tests

• Temporarily not running ...