Get Acquainted with the New Advanced Features of JUnit 4
Learn how to migrate from JUnit 3.8 to JUnit 4. Discover version 4's new features, including extensive use of annotations, and find out the status on IDE integration.
by Antonio Goncalves
July 24, 2006
oes anybody need an introduction on JUnit? No? OK, so I'll assume that you know this Java unit testing framework created by Kent Beck and Erich Gamma and skip the introduction. Instead I will focus on the migration process from JUnit 3.8 to the latest version, JUnit 4, and its integration in IDEs and Ant.
JUnit 4 is a completely different API from the versions that came before it and depends on new features of Java 5.0 (annotations, static import…). As you'll see, JUnit 4 is simpler, richer, and easier to use and introduces more flexible initialization and cleanup, timeouts, and parameterized test cases.
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oes anybody need an introduction on JUnit? No? OK, so I'll assume that you know this 
