Question

These are my testcases

class Mother {

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        if (!this.getClass().isAnnotatedWith("Version20")) { // pseudo code
            /*
             * stop this test without failing!
             */
        }

        // further setup
    }
}


@Version20
class Child extends Mother {

    @Test
    public void test() {
        // run only when Version == 20
    }
}

Is it possible to stop the test in Child in the @Before method of Mother without failing or assertTrue(false)?

edit:
I have more Versions @Version19, @Version18 etc.
my software is reading a configfile and outputting the result some tests are only applicable for special Versions.
I don’t want to make the version check within the test method because i have a lot of small tests and don’t like code duplication

Answer 1

I asked a similar question previously – the result was that you can use the Assume class’ methods to disable a test based on a run-time check (whereas @Ignore is a static condition).

That said, if you’re always disabling them based on a specific annotation, it would seem that you don’t actually need to do this at run-time. Simply annotating the classes with @Ignore as well as @Version20 would do the job, and would be arguably clearer.

Though I suspect you might be ignoring only if the test is running in “1.0 mode” – in which case it is a runtime introspection, and you could do this with something like:

@Before
public void setUp() {
   if (!this.getClass().isAnnotatedWith("Version20")) {
      final String version = System.getProperty("my.app.test.version");
      org.junit.Assume.assumeTrue(version.equals("2.0"));
   }
}