Question

I have created an Ant target to compile my code.

<target name="test" depends="compile">
    <junit>
        <classpath>
            <pathelement path="${basedir}\..\SwaCore\lib\junit.jar"/>
        </classpath>
        <classpath>
            <pathelement path="${build}"/>
        </classpath>
        <test name="BinarySearchTest" />
    </junit>
</target>

<target name="compile">
    <mkdir dir="${build}"/>
    <javac
        srcdir="${basedir}\src;${basedir}\..\SwaCore\src;${basedir}\..\SwaShared\src;${basedir}\..\SwaDictionary\src;${basedir}\..\SwaSuggestion\src;${basedir}\..\SwaServerSharedCore\src;${basedir}\..\SwaPrediction\src;"
        destdir="${build}"
        debug="true"
        debuglevel="lines,vars,source">
        <classpath>
            <pathelement path="${basedir}\..\SwaCore\lib\junit.jar"/>
            <pathelement path="${basedir}\..\SwaSuggestion\lib\ssce.jar"/>
            <pathelement path="C:\Java\javamail-1.4.1\mail.jar"/>
            <pathelement path="C:\Java\commons-net-2.0\commons-net-ftp-2.0.jar"/>
            <pathelement path="${basedir}\WebContent\WEB-INF\lib\gson-2.2.1.jar"/>
            <pathelement path="${tomcatLibs}\servlet-api.jar"/>
        </classpath>
    </javac>
</target>

The compile works fine, all my classes are in the folder pointed to by ${build}. I assume this ${build} will be the classpath for my JUnit test case.
I then have a test target that I want to run a JUnit test Called BinarySearchTest. When I run this I get the simple error

Test BinarySearchTest FAILED

I know my Unit test is ok because it tests nothing.

public class BinarySearchTest extends TestCase
{
    public void test()
    {       
    }
}

Even if I put the following in my test target I still get the same error

<test name="AtestThatDoesNotExistTest" />

result =

Test AtestThatDoesNotExistTest FAILED

I would have expected a classNotFound error so there is obviously something fundamentally wrong with my Ant XML

JUnit jar is being picked up ok because if it’s not in the classpath I will get the error

The <classpath> for <junit> must include junit.jar if not in Ant's own classpath

---

Update
I modified my target to include

        <formatter type="brief" usefile="false" />
        <test name="com.swaserver.junit.BinarySearchTest" />

test:
[junit] Testsuite: com.swaserver.junit.BinarySearchTest
[junit] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Time elapsed: 1.878 sec
[junit] ------------- Standard Output ---------------
[junit] Initializing Binary search class
[junit] Binary search class initialized
[junit] ------------- ---------------- ---------------

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 2 seconds

Now I can see that my test is actually run. However I get a class not found unless I specify the fully qualified class name for my unit test. Why would this be?

Answer 1

You may try

    <classpath>
        <pathelement path="${basedir}\..\SwaCore\lib\junit.jar"/>
        <pathelement path="${build}"/>
    </classpath>

instead of

    <classpath>
        <pathelement path="${basedir}\..\SwaCore\lib\junit.jar"/>
    </classpath>
    <classpath>
        <pathelement path="${build}"/>
    </classpath>