Gradle has a built-in support for running tests for our Java projects. When we add the Java plugin to our project, we will get new tasks to compile and run tests. We will also get the testCompile
and testRuntime
dependency configurations. We use these dependencies to set the class path for running the tests in our code base:
Let's write a simple JUnit test for a sample Java class. The implementation of
gradle.sample.Sample
has thegetWelcomeMessage()
method, where we read a text from thefile
property and then return the value. The following example contains the code for theSample
class:// File: src/main/java/gradle/sample/Sample.java package gradle.sample; import java.util.ResourceBundle; /** * Read welcome message from external properties file * <code>messages.properties</code>. */
Next, we must add the resource property file that is used by the
Sample
class. We will create themessages...