Question

Is there a way to build custom test phases in gradle?

I have a series of tests, namely

/unit
/local
/remote

which is running JUnit managed tests for a couple different purposes. I’d love to be able to run these as test phases, such as gradle test:unit, or something like that. Ideally, I could also specify a description for each test phase, so gradle tasks describes the role of each of the tests.

Is this possible? If so, how?

I tried this:

sourceSets {
    unit {
        java.srcDir file('src/test/groovy/local')
        resources.srcDir file('src/local/resources')
    }
}
dependencies {...}
task unitTest(type: Test){
    testClassesDir = sourceSets.local.output.classesDir
    classpath = sourceSets.local.runtimeClasspath
}

…as copied from withIntegrationTests in the provided samples, but when I run gradle unitTest, no tests run.

Answer 1

You just need to add three Test tasks (testUnit, testLocal, testRemote) and configure them accordingly. (Instead of introducing testUnit, you could also reuse the test task that comes with the Java plugin.) If the sources are in different source folders, it also makes sense to add additional source sets. For the details, have a look at samples/java/withIntegrationTests in the full Gradle distribution.