Appendix D. Running tests with Ant
Apache Ant is the de facto build tool used by Java developers all around the world. Not surprisingly, Ant has had JUnit integration as long as I can remember. Here’s a quick tutorial for creating an Ant script that runs our unit tests and cranks out a pretty HTML report of the results. If you’re not familiar with Ant, please refer to the online documentation[1] or grab one of the excellent books on the topic.[2]
1 Especially the User’s Manual (http://ant.apache.org/manual) and the Ant Wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/ant).
2 I would personally recommend Ant in Action by Steve Loughran and Erik Hatcher (Manning Publications, 2007). It’s basically a 2nd edition of their earlier book, Java Development with Ant ...
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