In this post I’d like to briefly present extended approach to provide fixtures into JUnit tests. JUnit already provides a possibility to execute methods right before/after test method and before/after test class. This standard functionality does not fulfill more sophisticated requirements. Thanks to @Beofre/@After annotations, for each test there is always executed exactly the same method. In a case in which we’d like to have a dedicated fixture code for each method the existing approach is not so convenient. I’ve developed fixture handling addition to JUnit framework with a possibility to define different fixture for each test.

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