How to temporarily disable a Junit test from running?

Question

I have the following Junit test class

package Md5Tests;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import timebackup.*;

/**
 *
* @author jack
*/
public class PathNodeToXmlTest {

public PathNodeToXmlTest() {
}

@Before
public void setUp() {
}

@After
public void tearDown() {
}

@Test
public void createXml() {
    PathNode root = new PathNode(true, "docs", "0");
    root.addPathNode(new PathNode(true, "docs sub folder", "1"));
    root.addPathNode(new PathNode(false, "docs sub file", "2"));
    PathNodeToXml xmlCreator = new PathNodeToXml(root);
    System.out.println(xmlCreator);
}
}

I am now trying to temporarily stop the test createXml() from being run by the test runner. I have tried adding the @Ignore annotation right before the @Test annotation however the compiler throws an error saying that it can't find the symbol for @Ignore. I am using the NetBeans Ide.

Anyone have any ideas either how to prevent the compile error, or another way to temporarily prevent a JUnit test from running?

Answer 1

JUnit 5

Since JUnit5 the @Disabled annotation is used to signal that the annotated test class or test method is currently disabled and should not be executed:

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled

class ExampleClass {

    @Disabled("This test is disabled")
    @Test
    void testWillBeDisabled() {
    }
}

Also see Disabling Tests in JUnit 5 User Guide.

Thanks to @jakobleck for JUnit 5 update

Old answer for Junit 4.

@Ignore annotation is in a package org.junit so you need to add import statement

import org.junit.Ignore;

or

import org.junit.*;

Next time you have a problem like this you can just google class name (e.g. junit @Ignore) go to the documentation page and check package name.

In NetBeans you can use "Source -> Fix Imports" command (Ctrl + Shift + I) and IDE will try to resolve necessary imports automatically.