I have an interface List
whose implementations include Singly Linked List, Doubly, Circular etc. The unit tests I wrote for Singly should do good for most of Doubly as well as Circular and any other new implementation of the interface. So instead of repeating the unit tests for every implementation, does JUnit offer something inbuilt which would let me have one JUnit test and run it against different implementations?
Using JUnit parameterized tests I can supply different implementations like Singly, doubly, circular etc but for each implementation the same object is used to execute all the tests in the class.
With JUnit 4.0+ you can use parameterized tests:
@RunWith(value = Parameterized.class)
annotation to your test fixturepublic static
method returning Collection
, annotate it with @Parameters
, and put SinglyLinkedList.class
, DoublyLinkedList.class
, CircularList.class
, etc. into that collectionClass
: public MyListTest(Class cl)
, and store the Class
in an instance variable listClass
setUp
method or @Before
, use List testList = (List)listClass.newInstance();
With the above setup in place, the parameterized runner will make a new instance of your test fixture MyListTest
for each subclass that you provide in the @Parameters
method, letting you exercise the same test logic for every subclass that you need to test.