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Asked: 2026-05-12T22:15:26+00:00

I want to run my unit tests automatically when I save my Eclipse project.

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I want to run my unit tests automatically when I save my Eclipse project. The project is built automatically whenever I save a file, so I think this should be possible in some way.

How do I do it? Is the only option really to get an ant script and change the project build to use the ant script with targets build and compile?

Update I will try 2 different approaches now:

  1. Running an additional builder for my project that executes the ant target test (I have an ant script anyway)
  2. ct-eclipse, recommended by Thorbjørn
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  1. Editorial Team

    For sure it it unwise to run all tests, because we can have for example 20.000 tests whereas our change could affect only, let’s say 50 of them, among which are tests for the class we have changed and tests for classes that collaborate with our class.

    There is an unseful plugin called infinitetest http://improvingworks.com/products/infinitest/ which runs only some tests ( related to class we’ve changed ) just after we save changes. It also integrate quite nicely with editor ( using annotations ) and problem view – displaying not-passing tests like errors.

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