JUnit @Ignore usefulness?

Question

In JUnit you can use @Ignore before methods to tell the test runner to automatically skip those tests. From what I can gather, this is really only a convenient way

Answer 1

FYI, TestNG supports this slightly differently:

• You can include a description of why the test is being ignored:

  @Test(enabled = false, description = "Disabled until BUG-1234 gets fixed")
  

  • The Eclipse TestNG plug-in and the HTML reports will give you a list of all the tests that have been disabled, along with the reason why: