TaskDef

A bundle of information used to request a Task from a test framework.

An array of TaskDef is passed to Runner's tasks method, which returns an array of Tasks. Each returned task, when executed, will run tests and suites determined by the test class name, fingerprints, "explicitly specified" field, and selectors of one of the passed TaskDefs.

The "Explicitly specified" field means the user supplied a complete fully qualified test name, such as with the command:

> test-only com.mycompany.myproject.WholeNameSpec

as opposed to commands like:

> test-only *WholeNameSpec

or simply:

> test

The explicitlySpecified field will be true for in the first case, and false in the last two cases, because only in the first case was the fully qualified test class name completely specified by the user. The test framework can use this information to decide whether to ignore an annotation requesting a class not be discovered.

The fingerprint parameter indicates how the test suite was identified as a test suite. This tasks method may be called with TaskDefs containing the same value for testClassName but different fingerprints. For example, if both a class and its companion object were test classes, the tasks method could be passed an array containing TaskDefs with the same name but with a different value for fingerprint.isModule.

A test framework may "reject" a requested task by returning no Task for that TaskDef.