The JUnit Platform does not receive complete support from IDEs and build tools
Author: mpkorstanjeCreated Mar 8, 2022Updated Sep 22, 2026
Labelsstatus: blocked3rd-party: Maven Surefire3rd-party: Gradle3rd-party: IntelliJ IDEA3rd-party: Eclipse
Currently the user-guide states:
First-class support for the JUnit Platform also exists in popular IDEs (see IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, NetBeans, and Visual Studio Code) and build tools (see Gradle, Maven, and Ant).
However of these I know that:
IDEA
Eclipse
- No issue exists.
Maven Surefire
Gradle
VSCode
SBT
do not support the use of all discovery selector primitives (either directly or indirectly) and don't fully use the hierarchal test concept (often limited to the extent needed to support JUnit 4). As such I don't believe we can claim these IDEs and build tools have first-class support for the JUnit Platform. At best I believe we may claim some support for JUnit Jupiter.
Source: junit-team/junit-framework