Test Execution Listener

Hi markiewb, Milos,
thank you for your replies. I took a look at netbeans-continuous-surefire but the granularity of events is too rough - it just reacts to Maven surefire mojo execution but there's no possibility (at least I could not find it) to register for executions of specific test cases.

To be able to react to test population into a results window is not enough in my case as I need to notify about test case executions in real time - for example if the JUnit tests are making some REST calls I need to know which calls belong to which test case.

I need to notify the external system of every test case executed in NetBeans - so it would be very nice if I could register an instance of JUnit  RunListener somewhere and receive the notifications

https://github.com/junit-team/junit/blob/master/src/main/java/org/junit/runner/notification/RunListener.java

If NetBeans execute JUnit tests in Maven project via Surefire or Failsafe plugin I can register the listener in plugin configuration inside POM as described in section Using Custom Listeners and Reporters:

https://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-failsafe-plugin/examples/junit.html

Though that is a way I can take it requires POM modification. If I could plug in such listener using NetBeans API even for Maven builds it would be better.

Where I am totally lost is how to do it in case the NetBeans execute JUnit test directly for non-Maven based projects. Still I need to receive notifications upon test case start and finish.

For example in Eclipse I am able to use extension point in JDT UI and register a test listener that gets notified when a JUnit test is executed by Eclipse JUnit test runner RemoteTestRunner:

http://help.eclipse.org/mars/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.jdt.doc.isv%2Fguide%2Fjdt_api_junit.htm&cp=3_0_3_0

So the question is again - is there something similar in NetBeans?

-Jan