I have multiple test classes e.g. TestA.class, TestB.class, TestC.class..., which have the SAME @BeforeClass method. To make the test run efficient, I would like to only run the @BeforeClass method ONCE for ALL these test classes.

I tried to put all these classes in junit4's default @RunWith feature, the sample code snippet is:

			

			

			@RunWith(Suite.class)
			

			@SuiteClasses(
			

			{
			

			TestA.class,
			

			TestB.class,
			

			TestC.class
			

			}
			

			

			)
			

			

			public class TrySuite
			

			{
			

			@BeforeClass
			

			public static void doBeforeTestClassRun(){
			

			//do stuff
			

			}
			

			

			}
			

		

But there are two problems in this approach:

1. I don't want to manually add test classes to @SuiteClasses(), which is a growing list, and hard to maintain.


2. The ant report for this test only shows the information for the suite class --in my case, TrySuite, and don't display which individual test class fail, which cause debug inconvenience.

e.g.
[junit] Running TrySuite
[junit] Tests run: 25, Failures: 1, Errors: 2, Time elapsed: 2 sec

Any suggestions are highly appreciated!