Stop JUnit test in @Before method without failing

Question

These are my testcases

class Mother {

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        if (!this.getClass().isAnnotatedWith("Version20")) { // pseudo code
            /*
             * stop this test without failing!
             */
        }

        // further setup
    }
}


@Version20
class Child extends Mother {

    @Test
    public void test() {
        // run only when Version == 20
    }
}

Is it possible to stop the test in Child in the @Before method of Mother without failing or assertTrue(false)?

edit: I have more Versions @Version19, @Version18 etc. my software is reading a configfile and outputting the result some tests are only applicable for special Versions. I don't want to make the version check within the test method because i have a lot of small tests and don't like code duplication

Why not just use `@ignore`, if you're going to annotate the tests anyway? — weltraumpirat, May 02 '12 at 11:53
How about adding the check for Version20 within the test method? — Chetter Hummin, May 02 '12 at 11:53
possible duplicate of [Conditionally ignoring tests in JUnit 4](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1689242/conditionally-ignoring-tests-in-junit-4) — oers, May 02 '12 at 12:04

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

I asked a similar question previously - the result was that you can use the Assume class' methods to disable a test based on a run-time check (whereas @Ignore is a static condition).

That said, if you're always disabling them based on a specific annotation, it would seem that you don't actually need to do this at run-time. Simply annotating the classes with @Ignore as well as @Version20 would do the job, and would be arguably clearer.

Though I suspect you might be ignoring only if the test is running in "1.0 mode" - in which case it is a runtime introspection, and you could do this with something like:

@Before
public void setUp() {
   if (!this.getClass().isAnnotatedWith("Version20")) {
      final String version = System.getProperty("my.app.test.version");
      org.junit.Assume.assumeTrue(version.equals("2.0"));
   }
}

Stop JUnit test in @Before method without failing

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