How to run all tests belonging to a certain Category in JUnit 4

Question

JUnit 4.8 contains a nice new feature called "Categories" that allows you to group certain kinds of tests together. This is very useful, e.g. to have separate test runs for slow and fast tests. I know the stuff mentioned in JUnit 4.8 release notes, but would like to know how I can actually run all the tests annotated with certain category.

The JUnit 4.8 release notes show an example suite definition, where SuiteClasses annotation selects the tests from certain category to run, like this:

@RunWith(Categories.class)
@IncludeCategory(SlowTests.class)
@SuiteClasses( { A.class, B.class }) // Note that Categories is a kind of Suite
public class SlowTestSuite {
  // Will run A.b and B.c, but not A.a
}

Does anyone know how I could run all the tests in SlowTests category? It seems that you must have the SuiteClasses annotation...

Answer 1

I found out one possible way to achieve what I want, but I don't consider this to be the best possible solution as it relies on ClassPathSuite library that is not part of JUnit.

I define the test suite for slow tests like this:

@RunWith(Categories.class)
@Categories.IncludeCategory(SlowTests.class)
@Suite.SuiteClasses( { AllTests.class })
public class SlowTestSuite {
}

AllTests class is defined like this:

@RunWith(ClasspathSuite.class)
public class AllTests {
}

I had to use ClassPathSuite class from ClassPathSuite project here. It will find all the classes with tests.