Category: Java

Integration and Unit Tests with IntelliJ IDEA and JUnit 5

When working on a project in Java, I like to name my integration and unit tests separately. Integration tests end ‘-IT’, and unit tests don’t.

This makes it really easy to run just unit or integration tests in IntelliJ by using one of these two patterns:

  • Integration tests – ^(.*IT.*).*$
  • Unit tests – ^(?!.*IT.*).*$

Make sure the Run configuration has the Test Kind set to Pattern, and searches for tests in the whole project.

Converting from assert() to assertEquals() in Java

When I was inexperienced in Java, I wrote a lot of tests using assert(), rather than using assertEquals().
Revisiting code today, I wanted to update many test suites to use assertEquals(), which requires I flip the expected and actual values around. Too difficult to do quickly by hand, so I used the following regular expression:
Find: assert \((.+)\)\.equals\((.+)\)\);
Replace: assertEquals($2, $1));
It worked like a treat.