Where to put JUnit test cases?

[Ken]

Hi. I have two JUnit questions.

1- Is this the right newsgroup for JUnit questions?

2- Any suggestions on how to organize test cases? Should they be
included in production code packages or separated out into their own
JUnitTest package?

Thanks!

Ken

 

[Thomas Fritsch]

Hi. I have two JUnit questions.

1- Is this the right newsgroup for JUnit questions?

May be. But also take at look at http://junit.sourceforge.net/

2- Any suggestions on how to organize test cases? Should they be
included in production code packages or separated out into their own
JUnitTest package?

Both approaches have their pro's and con's.
See also at http://junit.sourceforge.net/doc/faq/faq.htm#organize_1

 

[news.rcn.com]

I go for the 2nd option described in the 2nd link from Thomas which is test
classes go in a parallel tree
project
src
package...
SomeClass.java
test
package....
SomeClassTest.java
classes
package...
SomeClass.class
SomeClassTest.class

Some advantages are:
Easy to parameterize make files so the commands for the 'src' tree also
work for the 'test' tree
All class files go in same class tree minimizing classpath problems.
You can do things like grep all the files in the source tree for
references to some variable or method and
and not get a lot of 'false positives' from occurences in test code.

jim cant