What can cause JUnit to disregard @Ignore annotations?

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Pops picture Pops · Jun 2, 2011 · Viewed 21.9k times · Source

I just used MyEclipse to automatically generate some JUnit test cases. One of the generated methods looks like this:

@Ignore("Ignored") @Test
public void testCreateRevision()
{
    fail("Not yet implemented"); // TODO
}

I added the @Ignore annotation manually. However, when I run the test, JUnit lists that method, and others like it, under "failures," rather than ignoring them (related: What's the difference between failure and error in JUnit?). And it displays the "Not yet implemented" message instead of the "Ignored" message. Clearly, fail() must be getting called, and therefore, the @Ignore assertion is not working.

What's going on here? Is there a setting I need to enable for this to work?

EDIT :
Things I have considered/tried so far:

  • I am using JUnit 4, so it's not a version problem.
  • I am importing org.junit.Ignore, so it's not a case of the wrong Ignore being used.
  • I have tried using @Ignore alone, @Ignore @Test and @Ignore("message") @Test; all fail.

EDIT 2 :
I created the tests with MyEclipse, via New > Other; Java > JUnit > JUnit Test Case; New JUnit 4 test, and the library in my build path is JUnit 4. I'm building with ant and actually running the case with MyEclipse.

Answer

Tomasz Nurkiewicz picture Tomasz Nurkiewicz · Jun 2, 2011

  1. Make sure you are importing the right @Ignore. To be sure use @org.junit.Ignore explicitly.

  2. Double check if your test is being executed by JUnit 4, not 3. The easiest way to do this is to either change the test name so it is not prefixed by test (now it shouldn't be executed at all and JUnit 4 does not need this prefix anyway) or examine your test case inheritance hierarchy: it shouldn't extend directly or indirectly from junit.framework.TestCase (Junit 3 requirement).

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