Do not run a category of slow JUnit tests by default in Maven and every IDE (Eclipse, IntelliJ, …) without an explicit TestSuite

Question

I have a set of really slow tests, which take a week to run. (They literally run some code non-stop for about a week).

Naturally, no developer (or even the default build

Answer 1

As far as I know there is no way of preventing Eclipse from running certain tests by default.

Running certain categories from Maven is easy enough using

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-surefire-plugin
    2.12.4
    
        ${tests.exclude}
    

And then define tests.exclude in certain maven profiles.

Maintaining test suites in JUnit is indeed too much work with the current version of JUnit as I've written about in a blogpost. I also explain how a library called cpsuite automatically does the Suite administration for you like this:

@RunWith(ClasspathSuite.class) // Loads all unit tests it finds on the classpath
@ExcludeBaseTypeFilter(SlowTest.class) // Excludes tests that inherit SlowTest
public class FastTests {}

However, in both methods, Eclipse by default will still just run all Java files with a @Test annotation in them.