Re: Multiple Threads for Junit Classes

From:
Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:45:13 GMT
Message-ID:
<JKLYh.4537$Ut6.2027@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>
Arne Vajh?j wrote:

sakcee@gmail.com wrote:

I was wondering if any one has experience in which multiple Junit
classeshas to be run concurrently and not in a sequential way(or
whichever way Junit runs). As I understand Junit just scans/gatters
all the files for testcases and run then one by one , it also
introduces its @Before, @After etc tags which do not work as normal
class or object hierarchies e.g. I am not sure but it seems like
events that are triggered instead of object creations.

Now I want to run different threads of junit classes in same JVM. is
there a way? Right now I am using a JUnitCore object and running each
class with it. and making one thread run one JunitCore. is this
correct?

any help is greatly appreciated , as I have read some junit books and
this information is available nowhere. also the structure of JUnit is
also not clear.


I think running multiple unit tests in parallel to find
bugs is the proper way of doing it.


Did you mean "I don't think running multiple ..."? If so, I would agree.

I think it would be better to have one unit tests that
tested the thread safeness of the code using multiple
threads.


Or, of course, several consecutive tests each of which tests its own
combination of number of threads, initial settings of any random number
generators etc.

Patricia

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