Question

Our application depends on numerous resources that are provided by another system.

To ensure the existence of those resources, we currently have a JUnit test case (probably more an integration test), that takes a list of all the resources as a textfile, fetches each and tracks success/failure.

This is a very long running testCase that is not very ‘tool friendly’. What we would really like to have is something along the lines of one test-method per resource.

I am aware that this is not what JUnit was meant to do. But is there a way to generate those testmethods on the fly?

Maybe something a bit more ‘elegant’ than writing a perl-script to generate hundreds of methods?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

You may want to look at parameterized tests. This is easier to achieve in JUnit 4, though can be done in JUnit 3. See this question for code: JUnit test with dynamic number of tests