JUnit5 Tutorial

JUnit5 Tutorial

In this Junit tutorial, we will introduce basics of JUnit5 and its new features using examples. In Java world, JUnit is one of the popular framework used to implement unit tests against java code. JUnit primarily helps developers to test their code on the JVM by themselves.

JUnit5 Architecture

JUnit Platform

• Launches testing frameworks on the JVM
• Has TestEngine API used to build a testing framework that runs on the JUnit platform

JUnit Jupiter

• Blend of new programming model for writing tests and extension model for extensions
• Addition of new annotations like @BeforeEach, @AfterEach, @AfterAll, @BeforeAll etc.

JUnit Vintage

• Provides support to execute previous JUnit version 3 and 4 tests on this new platform

JUnit Maven Dependencies

To implement JUnit5 based test cases in a project, add the following dependency to the pom.xml file of the project:

• JUnit 5 Library

<dependency>
     <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
     <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
     <version>5.1.1</version>
     <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
     <groupId>org.junit.platform</groupId>
     <artifactId>junit-platform-runner</artifactId>
     <version> 1.1.1</version>
     <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

• JUnit5 maven surefire provider to execute the unit tests where IDE does not have JUnit5 support (if IDE has support then this point is not required)

<plugin>
     <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
     <version>2.19.1</version>
     <dependencies>
          <dependency>
               <groupId>org.junit.platform</groupId>
               <artifactId>junit-platform-surefire-provider</artifactId>
               <version>1.0.2</version>
          </dependency>
     </dependencies>
</plugin>

JUnit5 New Features

It requires Java 8 or higher at runtime. But one can still test code which is compiled using previous Java versions. There are various new features got introduced in it.

JUnit Annotations

Listed below are some commonly used annotations provided in it:

package com.journaldev;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.DisplayName;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

public class JUnit5Sample1Test {

  @BeforeAll
  static void beforeAll() {
    System.out.println("**--- Executed once before all test methods in this class ---**");
  }

  @BeforeEach
  void beforeEach() {
    System.out.println("**--- Executed before each test method in this class ---**");
  }

  @Test
  void testMethod1() {
    System.out.println("**--- Test method1 executed ---**");
  }

  @DisplayName("Test method2 with condition")
  @Test
  void testMethod2() {
    System.out.println("**--- Test method2 executed ---**");
  }

  @Test
  @Disabled("implementation pending")
  void testMethod3() {
	  System.out.println("**--- Test method3 executed ---**");
  }

  @AfterEach
  void afterEach() {
    System.out.println("**--- Executed after each test method in this class ---**");
  }

  @AfterAll
  static void afterAll() {
    System.out.println("**--- Executed once after all test methods in this class ---**");
  }


}

We can run above JUnit test class in Eclipse -> Run As -> JUnit Test.

JUnit Assertions

Every test method must be evaluated against condition to true using assertions so that the test can continue to execute. JUnit Jupiter assertions are kept in the org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions class. All of the methods are static.

@Test
void testAssertEqual() {
	 assertEquals("ABC", "ABC");
	 assertEquals(20, 20, "optional assertion message");
	 assertEquals(2 + 2, 4);
}

@Test
void testAssertFalse() {
	 assertFalse("FirstName".length() == 10);
	 assertFalse(10 > 20, "assertion message");
}

@Test
void testAssertNull() {
     String str1 = null;
	 String str2 = "abc";
	 assertNull(str1);
	 assertNotNull(str2);	
}

@Test
void testAssertAll() {
	 String str1 = "abc";
	 String str2 = "pqr";
	 String str3 = "xyz";
	 assertAll("numbers",
	      () -> assertEquals(str1,"abc"),
		  () -> assertEquals(str2,"pqr"),
		  () -> assertEquals(str3,"xyz")
	 );
	 //uncomment below code and understand each assert execution
     /*assertAll("numbers",
		  () -> assertEquals(str1,"abc"),
		  () -> assertEquals(str2,"pqr1"),
		  () -> assertEquals(str3,"xyz1")
	 );*/
}

@Test
void testAssertTrue() {
	 assertTrue("FirstName".startsWith("F"));
	 assertTrue(10  {
	      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal Argument Exception occured");
	 });
	 assertEquals("Illegal Argument Exception occured", exception.getMessage());
}

JUnit5 Imports

Its test classes need org.junit.jupiter.api.Test import statement and not org.junit.Test. Also, the test methods need not be a public and local package.

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

JUnit5 Assumptions

Assumptions are static methods in the org.junit.jupiter.api.Assumptions class. They will execute a test only when the specified condition met otherwise test will be aborted. The aborted test will not cause build failure. When an assumption fails, org.opentest4j.TestAbortedException is thrown and the test is skipped.

@Test
void testAssumeTrue() {
     boolean b = 'A' == 'A';
     assumeTrue(b);
     assertEquals("Hello", "Hello");
}

@Test
@DisplayName("test executes only on Saturday")
public void testAssumeTrueSaturday() {
     LocalDateTime dt = LocalDateTime.now();
     assumeTrue(dt.getDayOfWeek().getValue() == 6);
     System.out.println("further code will execute only if above assumption holds true");
}

@Test
void testAssumeFalse() {
     boolean b = 'A' != 'A';
     assumeFalse(b);
     assertEquals("Hello", "Hello");
}

@Test
void testAssumeFalseEnvProp() {
     System.setProperty("env", "prod");
     assumeFalse("dev".equals(System.getProperty("env")));
     System.out.println("further code will execute only if above assumption hold");
}

@Test
void testAssumingThat() {
     System.setProperty("env", "test");
     assumingThat("test".equals(System.getProperty("env")),
          () -> {
               assertEquals(10, 10);
               System.out.println("perform below assertions only on the test env");
               });

     assertEquals(20, 20);
     System.out.println("perform below assertions on all env");
}

JUnit Nested Test Classes

Nested tests allow to create nested classes and execute all of its test methods. The inner classes must be non-static. Just annotate inner classes with @Nested and all test methods inside it will be executed.

@BeforeAll
static void beforeAll() {
     System.out.println("**--- JUnit5Sample4Test :: beforeAll :: Executed once before all test methods ---**");
}
 
@BeforeEach
void beforeEach() {
	 System.out.println("**--- JUnit5Sample4Test :: beforeEach :: Executed before each test method ---**");
}

@AfterEach
void afterEach() {
	 System.out.println("**--- JUnit5Sample4Test :: afterEach :: Executed after each test method ---**");
}

@AfterAll
static void afterAll() {
	 System.out.println("**--- JUnit5Sample4Test :: afterAll :: Executed after all test method ---**");
}
 
     @Nested
     class InnerClass {
 
          @BeforeEach
          void beforeEach() {
               System.out.println("**--- InnerClass :: beforeEach :: Executed before each test method ---**");
          }
 
          @AfterEach
          void afterEach() {
        	   System.out.println("**--- InnerClass :: afterEach :: Executed after each test method ---**");
          }
 
          @Test
          void testMethod1() {
        	   System.out.println("**--- InnerClass :: testMethod1 :: Executed test method1 ---**");
          }
 
          @Nested
          class InnerMostClass {
 
               @BeforeEach
               void beforeEach() {
                    System.out.println("**--- InnerMostClass :: beforeEach :: Executed before each test method ---**");
               }
 
               @AfterEach
               void afterEach() {
            	    System.out.println("**--- InnerMostClass :: afterEach :: Executed after each test method ---**");
               }
 
               @Test
               void testMethod2() {
            	    System.out.println("**--- InnerMostClass :: testMethod2 :: Executed test method2 ---**");
               }
        }
    }

JUnit Test Exception

There are situations in which methods are expected to throw an exception under a specific condition. assertThrows will fail the test if the given method does not throw the specified exception.

Throwable exception = assertThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class, () -> {
     throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal Argument Exception occured");
});
assertEquals("Illegal Argument Exception occured", exception.getMessage());

JUnit Test Execution

The unit tests can be executed in many ways, two of the ways are as follows:

• Use Eclipse IDE Oxygen.3a (4.7.3a) Release and open test file to be executed. Right-click on the file and choose option Runs As followed by JUnit Test
• Use mvn test command on Windows command prompt

Summary

We’ve explored JUnit5 and its new features with some examples. We also looked how we can use JUnit annotations, assertions, assumptions, exceptions and write nested test classes.

You can download the complete example project from our GitHub Repository.