[FIXED] gradle junit runs: how to pick tests from jar file

Issue

We can run junit batchtest with tests picked from a jar file.

<zipfileset src="tests-only.jar" includes="**/*Test.class"/>

This runs all matching tests picked from test-only.jar

How to do similar thing with gradle. The testClassesDir only takes actual directory.

Solution

Gradle doesn't have a built-in feature for running test classes contained in a Jar file. (Feel free to submit a feature request at http://forums.gradle.org .) What should work is unpacking the Jar (as a separate task) and then setting testClassesDir accordingly. Note that the test classes will also need to be present on the test task's classpath (but it might be good enough to use the Jar for this).

Answered By - Peter Niederwieser
Answer Checked By - Terry (JavaFixing Volunteer)