Excluding integration tests in Eclipse IDE with JUnit 4 - eclipse

Question

I have two kinds of tests in my Java (Maven) web project: "normal" unit-tests and integration tests using an embedded Tomcat 7 server and Selenium for automated GUI testing on Jenkins. All tests are annotated with JUnit's #Test, normal tests end with "Test.java" while integration tests end with "IntegrationTest.java". All test-classes are located in src/test/java
I normally build my project with mvn clean verify, while the relevant part of my pom.xml which starts the tomcat server and splits the test-categories accordingly looks like this:
<!-- For front-end testing -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
<uriEncoding>UTF-8</uriEncoding>
<additionalConfigFilesDir>${basedir}/conf</additionalConfigFilesDir>
<contextFile>${basedir}/src/test/resources/context.xml</contextFile>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>start-tomcat</id>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>run-war-only</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<fork>true</fork>
<port>9090</port>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>stop-tomcat</id>
<phase>post-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shutdown</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.16</version>
<configuration>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*IntegrationTest*</exclude>
</excludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.16</version>
<configuration>
<includes>
<include>**/*IntegrationTest*</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>integration-test</goal>
<goal>verify</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
This procedure works fine, except when I want to run my tests in eclipse where I normally right-click on my project -> run as -> JUnit Tests. By selecting this option all my tests (including the integration tests) are run. The integration-tests fail in this case because Tomcat is not running (it is only started in Maven's pre-integration-test phase).
How can I exclude these tests in Eclipse with JUnit plugin?

Answer 1

I use junit-toolbox for that. It provides annotations to separate unit and integration tests via wildcard patterns.
<dependency>
<groupId>com.googlecode.junit-toolbox</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-toolbox</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
The base package under e.g. /src/test/java/base contains two classes –
AllUnitTests.java:
package base;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import com.googlecode.junittoolbox.ParallelSuite;
import com.googlecode.junittoolbox.SuiteClasses;
/**
* This detects all (fast running) unit test classes by the given naming pattern.
*
*/
#RunWith(ParallelSuite.class)
#SuiteClasses({ "**/*Test.class", "!**/*IntegrationTest.class", "!**/*LearningTest.class" })
public class AllUnitTests {
}
and
AllIntegrationTests.java:
package base;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import com.googlecode.junittoolbox.SuiteClasses;
import com.googlecode.junittoolbox.WildcardPatternSuite;
/**
* This detects all integration test classes by the given naming pattern.
*
*/
#RunWith(WildcardPatternSuite.class)
#SuiteClasses({ "**/*IntegrationTest.class", "**/*IT.class" })
public class AllIntegrationTests {
}
You can run both generic test suites via Eclipse.
To be able to also run the tests via Maven I use an approach which is similar to the one you have shown.