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Using JUnit with Eclipse IDE

Posted on May 31, 2005 by Cory Foy

One of my new projects at work is to ramp up a way to get our J2ME stuff under tests with JUnit. I’ve used NUnit quite a bit now, but hadn’t had a chance to get up to speed with JUnit. I found a nice article on getting JUnit running with Eclipse. The article is a tad old, but pretty straightforward. If you want a quick rundown, here it is:

  • Install Eclipse from eclipse.org.
  • File->New->Project…->Java Project
  • Name it whatever you want, and choose Next
  • Click on the “Libraries” tab
  • Click “Add External JARs…”
  • Choose $ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.junit_3.x.x (or whatever the junit version is)/junit.jar
  • Click Finish

Now your project has the JUnit jar on the classpath. Creating a test is very easy:

  • File->New->JUnit Test Case
  • Name it whatever you want – say TestThatWeGetHelloWorldPrompt to borrow from the article. Choose the method stub for main and “Add TestRunner Statement for text ui”
  • Create a basic testWorks – public void testWorks(){assertTrue(true);}
  • Save the file (autocompile)
  • Choose Run->Run As->JUnit Test
  • Watch the Green Bar pass
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