How can I use a JUnit RunListener in Eclipse?

eclipse, junit, maven, maven-failsafe-plugin

Solution

Yes, it is possible. Basically you have to implement your own Runner and inside the run method, you can add a custom run listener. I figured this out based on this post, point 2.

Here is my listener

public class TestLogger extends RunListener
{
    public void testFinished(Description description)
    {
        System.out.println("Successful " + description.getMethodName());
    }
}

and here is my Runner

public class TestRunner extends BlockJUnit4ClassRunner
{
    public TestRunner(Class<?> klass) throws InitializationError
    {
        super(klass);
    }

    @Override
    public void run(RunNotifier notifier)
    {
        notifier.addListener(new TestLogger());   // THIS IS THE IMPORTANT LINE
        super.run(notifier);
    }
}

and here is my actual junit test

@RunWith(TestRunner.class)           // THIS LINE IS ALSO IMPORTANT
public class MyTest1
{
    @Test
    public void Test1() throws Exception
    {
        if (Math.random() < .5) throw new Exception("ouch");
        assertFalse(Math.random() < .5);
    }
}

You can run MyTest1 or the Test1 method using the context menu in Eclipse and it will invoke the testLogger as you would expect.

Problem

I wrote a simple RunListener for JUnit which works quite well with Maven. I could register it for the maven-failsafe-plugin via ``` <properties> <property> <name>listener</name> <value>com.asml.lcp.middleware.common.jboss.test.tps.TestDocumentationListener</value> </property> </properties> ``` and see the correct output from the listener. Now I want to register the same RunListener in Eclipse to see the same output there, when I run the tests. Is this possible? For testing purposes and to be consistent it would be nice to have the same output.

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