Configuring Java for JUnit 3.8.1 in the bash Shell CS 2530 Intermediate Computing

Acknowledgment

Thanks to Aaron Thompson for his assistance in preparing these instructions.

Configuring Your bash Shell for JUnit

• Be sure that you have a .bash_profile file in your home directory that looks something like this:

       # .bash_profile
  
       # Get the aliases and functions
       if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
          . ~/.bashrc
       fi
  
       # User specific environment and startup programs
  
       PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
       BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc
       USERNAME=""
  
       export USERNAME BASH_ENV PATH
  



• Be sure that you have a .bashrc file in your home directory that looks something like this:

       # .bashrc
  
       # User specific aliases and functions
  
       # Source global definitions
       if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
           . /etc/bashrc
       fi
  
       if [ -f /etc/bash.bashrc ]; then
            . /etc/bash.bashrc
       fi
  
       # User specific environment and startup programs
  
       PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
       BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc
       USERNAME=""
       CLASSPATH=$HOME/junit3.8.1/junit.jar:.;
  
       export USERNAME BASH_ENV PATH CLASSPATH
  

  This tells your Java tools to look for classes first in the directory $HOME/junit3.8.1/junit.jar and then in the current working directory. If you have placed your junit3.8.1/ directory somewhere other than your home directory, add the corresponding directories to this path expression between $HOME/ and junit3.8.1/junit.jar.

You should now be able to run JUnit from any directory. If you want to run the tests provided with the JUnit package, then you need to either

• change into the junit3.8.1 directory, or


• add the junit3.8.1 directory itself to your CLASSPATH, too.