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Is it easy to switch from junit 4 to junit 5?


Asked by Haylee Davis on Dec 06, 2021 jUnit



Switching from JUnit 4 to JUnit 5 is quite simple, even if you have existing JUnit 4 tests. Most organizations don’t need to convert old JUnit tests to JUnit 5 unless new features are needed. When that’s the case, use these steps: Update your libraries and build systems from JUnit 4 to JUnit 5.
Furthermore,
Please note that JUnit 5 is not backward compatible with JUnit 4, but the JUnit team created the JUnit Vintage Project to support JUnit 4 test cases on top of JUnit 5. JUnit5 provides many new features that will help taking unit testing to next level in form of parameterized test, dynamic test and assertion aggregation to name a few.
Consequently, The @RunWith was used to integrate the test context with other frameworks or to change the overall execution flow in the test cases in JUnit 4. With JUnit 5, we can now use the @ExtendWith annotation to provide similar functionality. As an example, to use the Spring features in JUnit 4:
And,
JUnit 5 is the latest version of JUnit, which is primarily composed of three different sub-components – JUnit Platform, JUnit Jupiter, and JUnit Vintage. Before getting to know about these components, one essential requirement about JUnit 5 is that runtime JUnit 5 requires Java version 8 (or any other higher versions).
Additionally,
It seems that eclipse uses the JUnit 5 runner by default if JUnit 5 dependencies are found on the classpath. In case of my maven project, investigating the dependency hierarchy showed that actually both JUnit 4 and JUnit 5 dependencies were on the classpath.