Make unit testing easier for me

November 18, 2008 8:26 AM

I need a tool for running unit tests from multiple projects with Java/Eclipse/JUnit/OS X

The project I work on is divided into a collection of sub-projects; and each of the sub-projects has its own unit tests.

Tragically, if I want to run the unit tests for everything, I run the tests one project at a time.

It seems like there should be a plugin or some such for Eclipse that would automagically do this; but I haven't found one yet. Anyone know of one?

posted by ambilevous to computers & internet (6 comments total)

If I understand you correctly, you sound like a prime candidate for continuous integration. Take a look at Hudson or Cruise Control/Ant, set them up and just wait for the emails.
posted by rhizome at 9:10 AM on November 18, 2008

You do understand me correctly (:

And I know the things you speak of will work. But I was hoping for something that would involve less futzing about up front <: (And a big shiny button to click. With pretty colours. Mostly green.)
posted by ambilevous at 10:07 AM on November 18, 2008

We have have been using Hudson, and it was the easiest thing of its kind to set up that I have ever used. Put war in Tomcat, fire up browser, point click drool.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 10:37 AM on November 18, 2008

Frankly, and I'm assuming a lot here, you'd be better served by something running in the background, running the tests every 5 (or 30, or whatever) minutes and only letting you know when something goes wrong.

If these are your own projects, you aren't going to be working on multiple Eclipse projects at a time, right? So you can still run the tests of your active project on impulse just like you do now, and your inactive projects will still be getting checked out of source control and tested all the while.
posted by rhizome at 10:41 AM on November 18, 2008

i_am_joe's_spleen: I may have to look at this.. Hudson. The beginnings of a move towards continuous integration was started here with ant, I think; but it didn't quite make it to the stage where it barfed out a stream of emails for people to ignore.

rhizome: Alas, I'm doing enterprise-java-stuff; and the stuff I'm doing (which provoked the question) is something which is touching multiple projects... So I'm also after more of a "tapitty-tapitty-tapitty; does it all still work? great, repeat" process.
posted by ambilevous at 11:24 AM on November 18, 2008

Ah. Well I'd just write one big Ant task for that. It might take a bit of time to get right, but if you need to be able to do ad-hoc testing across a whole line of not-necessarily related code it's really the best long-term solution. Some good links in teh Googal (no snark intended).
posted by rhizome at 8:28 AM on November 20, 2008