How to write script in gradle that execute particular methods? - gradle

Question

I am writing a gradle script that runs all tests before making a build.
test {
filter {
includeTestsMatching "*TestAll*"
includeTestsMatching "*ExtensionValidatorTest*"
........
}
}
I have three tests of different versions(v1,v2,v3).
TestAll.java
package .....v1;//v2 for version 2 and v3 for version 3
#RunWith(Suite.class)
#Suite.SuiteClasses({
A.class,
B.class,
......
})
public class TestAll {
#BeforeClass
public static void setUp() {//connection to database
........
}
#AfterClass
public static void tearDown() {//close database connection
........
}
}
When I run gradle test connection to database is broken after execution of a particular TestAll. I do not want to change the TestAll files of any version as they can be run and tested independently. How can I make gradle run only setUp once(of any version)which establishes connection, then run all the TestAll method in v1,v2 and v3 and finally teardown(of any version) which terminates database connection.

Answer 1

Gradle won't help you with this. There are following methods in Gradle DSL:
test {
beforeSuite{...}
afterSuite{...}
}
However, they execute outside of the test runtime scope and intended for logging. You only can achieve this using a testing framework.
TestNG provides a simple solution - #BeforeSuite and #AfterSuite annotations, that are actually run once before and after the entire suite.
Unfortunately, JUnit doesn't have a built-in solution for that, since test isolation is its core concept. Nevertheless, you still can make your own. You need to encapsulate database-related API into a singleton class:
public class DbContainer() {
private static DbContainer container;
private DbContaner() {}
public DbContainer getInstance() {
if (container == null) {
container = new DbContainer()
}
return container;
}
public void openConnection() {
// ...
}
public void closeConnection() {
// ...
}
// here is your database API methods
}
Then you can share this instance between test methods and classes using #ClassRule annotation:
#ClassRule
public static DbContainer db = DbContainer.getInstance();
#Test
public void someTest() {
db.query(...)
}
Note: provided solution is not thread-safe and doesn't suit the parallel execution. Some additional effort is required to achieve it.