Re: what's an "Unrooted Test" and why can't I find anything online about

> I had a few minutes to look into this over lunch today.  What I learned
> is that when I had a test case that was a subclass of TestCase (to be
> specific, my test case was a subclass of a subclass of TestCase), I had
> the "Unrooted Test" problem.  When I made a test case in a new project
> from scratch that didn't extend TestCase but only used @Test
> annotations, Eclipse didn't run the unrooted tests.
>
> When I get some more time, I want to dig into it more and try to figure
> out why this is the case.  But I'm stuck in backlog estimation for the
> next 3 days, and then it's Christmas.  So I may not have time to
> investigate any more until the new year.
>
>
> Todd.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: junit@... [mailto:junit@...] On Behalf Of
> edu_kumar
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 7:44 PM
> To: junit@...
>
> Subject: Re: [junit] what's an "Unrooted Test" and why can't I find
> anything online about
>
> Hey Todd,
>
> I too got the same issue, If I execute only one unit test case as
> opposed to the whole class. It does shown me 'Unrooted Tests' in the
> Junit output screen.
>
> I tried investigating on this in net but found nothing about it. But i
> did find similar (infact exact) issues in google code base.
> Surprisingly, when I checked the same issue today it was removed.
>
> I guess we've two options with us now..
>
> 1) Ask in the JUnit developer forums, the same question and wait for the
> answer
> 2) Check in the code directly for any reference to 'Unrooted tests'.
>
> Please let me know,if you find any updates on this issue...
>
> Regards,
> Sarat.
>
> --- In junit@..., Per Jacobsson <perjacobsson@...> wrote:
> >
> > I'm running Eclipse 3.3 and Junit 4.4. A single test in outline view
> works fine here.
> > / Per
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: junit@... [mailto:junit@...] On Behalf
> Of Bradley, Todd
> > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 3:00 PM
> > To: junit@...
> > Subject: RE: [junit] what's an "Unrooted Test" and why can't I find
> anything online about it?
> >
> >
> > Hi, does anyone have advice in this area? Am we the only people using
> > JUnit 4.4 with Eclipse 3.3, or just the only ones who are having
> > problems with it?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Todd.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: junit@...<mailto:junit%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:junit@...<mailto:junit%40yahoogroups.com>] On
> > > Behalf Of Bradley, Todd
> > > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 3:38 PM
> > > To: junit@...<mailto:junit%40yahoogroups.com>
> > > Subject: [junit] what's an "Unrooted Test" and why can't I find
> > > anything online about it?
> > >
> > > I'm using Eclipse 3.3 with JUnit 4.4. In the olden days, with
> > > Eclipse 3.0 and JUnit 3.8, I could select a single test method in
> > > the Outline view and run just that method.
> > > Nowadays, whenever I try to do that, Eclipse's test runner runs all
> > > the tests in the class. The results are shown in a tree, and the
> > > tests I didn't ask to be run are all under a node called "Unrooted
> > > Tests [Runner: JUnit 4]".
> > >
> > > So, I figured there must be some simple explanation, and immediately
>
> > > did a Google search. And it found nothing on topic. So I searched
> > > the Eclipse documentation and website for "unrooted tests" and again
>
> > > got nothing. So I searched on this Yahoo Group's message archive,
> > > and again found nothing.
> > >
> > > Am I the only person in the world who has ever had this problem with
>
> > > running a single test method from Eclipse? Or am I searching for the
>
> > > web's most suppressed secret?
> > >
> > > Someone please tell me you've seen this problem too! And why is
> > > there nothing written up about these mysterious "Unrooted Tests" in
> > > all the places I looked?
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Todd.
> > > ----
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