Ant - the junit task: can load TestCases from jar ?

[Sol Mayer-Orn]

I'm using an ant task (the < junit > task) to run my TestCases.
Since I have many TestCases, I use < batchtest > with some wild card notation (so that I don't have to list each test separately).
You get something like:

< junit ...
   < batchtest ...
      < fileset dir="testClasses">
         < include name="**/*Test*.class"/>
      < / fileset >
 

This example works, assuming the mentioned "testClasses" is a *directory*, holding my compiled TestCases.

However, my question is: can you make it take the TestCases from a *jar* or zip file (rather than a simple directory) ?
Namely, I'd like to compile my TestCases, jar them into a "test-cases.jar" file, and run them all from ant.
Of course, i'd still like to use wildcard notation ("**/*Test*.class").

Thanks.

[Tim Holloway]

Yes, since there's nothing magic about tests. They're just classes that follow a certain convention and extend certain base classes. So you can put your test classes in any classpath construct you like.