Re: [java-gnome-hackers] Does junit-4 provide the JUnit 3 API?

[Nat P. <nat...@gm...>]

Yes.  The JUnit 4 JAR also contains the JUnit 3.8.1 classes.

--Nat

2009/6/14 Andrew Cowie <an...@op...>:
> The other day someone ran into a strange situation that they had junit-4
> installed but not junit[-3]. We of course probe for JUnit 3.8 and quite
> correctly didn't accept what she did have because they didn't had there.
>
> A bit later, someone suggested that junit 4.x can run tests written to
> the junit 3.8 API; Thijs, Kenneth, and I looked around and saw lots of
> people complaining that this would have a bad ending. And certainly most
> build & packaging systems I know of go to quite some trouble to identify
> and ship them separately. Based on that alone I would have expected
> junit-4 to not be a strict upgrade from junit.
>
> On the other hand, I was fairly sure that JUnit 4.x ships classes that
> allow you to run original tests against it. Just for the heck of it I
> manually changed my build to use junit-4 for a moment and it compiled
> and then executed the tests fine.
>
> So if someone who knows can comment authoritatively, perhaps we can
> accept the presence of junit-4 (should it be available without finding
> junit) to satisfy our test infrastructure requirement when probing?
>
> Anyway, until and unless the answer to this comes up "yes, it's fine",
> java-gnome depends on junit-3.8, as it has since the beginning.
>
> [Our tests will continue to be written to the original JUnit 3 API. It's
> more than fine for our purposes, and we have no need to depend on
> junit-4 as a result]
>
> AfC
> Sydney
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