Custom runners

Third Party Runners

Some popular third party implementations of runners for use with @RunWith include:

• Spring Framework
  • Spring TestContext Framework reference manual
  • SpringJUnit4ClassRunner Javadoc API
• Mockito
  • MockitoJUnitRunner
• JMockit
  • http://jmockit.org/api1x/mockit/integration/junit4/JMockit.html
• Concurrency / Test Helpers
  • Parallel Test Runner
  • ConcurrentTestRunner (Run tests in parallel)
  • JUnit Toolbox (Run tests in parallel; also Suite and Categories with Patterns, async)
  • IntermittentTestRunner (run repeatedly to expose intermittent failures)
• Hierarchical Context Runner – A runner implementation that supports context hierarchies in JUnit.
• Parameterised and data-driven testing
  • junit-dataprovider – A TestNG like dataprovider (see here) runner for JUnit.
  • JUnitParams - an alternative to JUnit's Parameterized runner, which support test data on a per method basis
  • ParameterizedSuite - Allows to define parameters for test suites.
  • TestParameterInjector - A simple yet powerful parameterized test runner developed by Google
• HookInstallingRunner - This JUnit test runner implements four significant features:
  • Invocation hooks for test and configuration methods
  • Test method timeout management
  • Automatic retry of failed tests
  • Shutdown hook installation
• BDD testing - these integrate popular BDD/ATDD methodologies
  • Cucumber Runner - Cucumber JVM integration for JUnit, based on Gherkin specifications written in feature files
  • JBehave - JBehave JUnit runner - a Gherkin-based specification framework
  • FitNesse - FitNesse Runner
  • ConcordionRunner - the Concordion BDD framework based on Gherkin specifications written in markdown
  • Spectrum - supports Specs in Jasmine/Mocha/Gherkin syntax (Java 8 required)
  • Oleaster - supports Specs in Jasmine/Mocha syntax
  • Ginkgo4jRunner - supports Specs in Jasmine/Mocha syntax
  • Cola tests - technically a precompiler for tests - Cola Documentation
• JICUnit - A JUnit runner in the JEE container for in-container testing similar to JUnitEE and Jakarta Cactus, both which are not developed any more.
• JUnit Browser Runner - A JUnit runner that executes your tests in a Browser using bck2brwsr.