[Junit-trackers] [ junit-Feature Requests-1625786 ] Please add @Testable annotation

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Feature Requests item #1625786, was opened at 2007-01-01 19:08
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Submitted By: Russ Jackson (arjackson)
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Summary: Please add @Testable annotation

Initial Comment:
It would be great if you could add a @Testable annotation to the JUnit 4 framework so that users could annotate their source methods that require unit testing and tools could use this to generate assocated JUnit tests.  Here is the requested annotation:

import java.lang.annotation.*;

@Retention(value = RetentionPolicy.SOURCE)
@Target( { ElementType.CONSTRUCTOR, ElementType.METHOD } )
public @interface Testable {

    String value() default "";

} // Testable annotation type


I recently added a plugin to IntelliJ IDEA that generates JUnit 4 tests.  As part of that the plugin creates this annotation in the users source, the users annotate their testable methods and then the plugin generates the test classes/methods for these annotated methods.  It would be nice if this annotation was available in the JUnit 4 framework.  

Thanks.

Russ

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Comment By: David Saff (dsaff)
Date: 2009-11-16 17:52

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Comment By: Russ Jackson (arjackson)
Date: 2007-01-01 19:27

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Forgot to mention - the value() annotation method, in the case of the IDEA
plugin, is used to name the test method.  For example, the user can
annotate their method with:

@Testable("testLongAddition")

and the plugin with generate a @Test annotated method with that name
(otherwise, the annotated method name is simply prefixed with 'test').

The value() method depends on that being the only annotation method. 
Perhaps a more extensible solution would be to name the annotation method
something like 'testName()'.  The usage in this case would be:

@Testable(testName="testLongAddition")

You may also want to consider adding other annotation methods to testable
to specify things like test paramters or anything else you think a tool
developer would find helpful when generating JUnit tests from annotated
source code.

Thanks again.

Russ 

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