IMPORTANT: I don't maintain this project anymore (actually, from a long time ago). For a (not tested by me) fork, see https://github.com/Hazem-Ben-Khalfallah/test-cherry.

Generates Test Cases is a port of Eclipse's generate test cases plugin described here: http://wiki.openmrs.org/display/archive/Generate+Test+Case+Eclipse+Plugin

This project aims to make it easier to make TDD with a really cool and easy approach that consist in annotating interface method with desired behaviours like this:

public interface Person {

/**
 *
 * @return
 * @should say hello, and nothing more that that
 */
String sayHello();

}

So with this plugin you could generate a test class for this interface like this one automatically:

import org.junit.Assert; import org.junit.Test;

public class PersonTest {

/**
 * @see Person#sayHello()
 * @verifies say hello, and nothing more that that
 */
@Test
public void sayHello_shouldSayHelloAndNothingMoreThatThat() throws Exception {
    //TODO auto-generated
    Assert.fail("Not yet implemented");
}

}

And then test your implementation code like this

public void sayHello_shouldSayHelloAndNothingMoreThatThat() throws Exception {
    assertThat(intance.sayHello(), is("hello world"));

}

This way you can realize that for testing this behaviour you just wrote the should annotation in the sut (system under test) in a really descriptive way.

/**
 *
 * @return
 * @should say hello, and nothing more that that
 */
String sayHello();

Auto-generated the test class and test method (using the plugin) and then tested the actual expected behaviour with (hamcrest style junit test):

 assertThat(intance.sayHello(), is("hello world"));

Nothing more.

Instructions to compile it and run it in development stage

By the time it is strongly coupled to Intellij Community Edition 9.0.3, and the folders that contains the plugin files need to reside in the plugins/ folder in the D:\jaime\intellij\ideaIC-95.429

Furthermore if you want to build and run ideaIC-95.429 you will need to place a jar generated for the plugin because of you have putted plugin's directory in the same directory that the idea project, and to the time I don't know how to let idea project to build the plugin for itself.

Another thing needed to run unit tests is to copy java\mockJDK residing in ideaIC-95.429\ to

C:\Documents and Settings\JHABLUTZEL.IntelliJIdea90\system\plugins-sandbox\test

because when you run a unit test "C:\Documents and Settings\JHABLUTZEL.IntelliJIdea90\system\plugins-sandbox\" is the home path for the plugin.