Understanding the Recipe File

In the following command, the first and only argument to the Artima SuiteRunner executable JAR file is the name of a recipe file, accountjunit.srj:

java -jar suiterunner-[release].jar accountjunit.srj

A recipe file is a Java properties file that supplies information needed by Artima SuiteRunner to run a suite of tests. Recipe files contain values for three properties: org.suiterunner.Runpath, org.suiterunner.Suites, and org.suiterunner.Reporters. The contents of accountjunit.srj are:

org.suiterunner.Runpath=-p "example"
org.suiterunner.Suites=-s com.artima.examples.account.ex6test.AccountTestCase
org.suiterunner.Reporters=-g

In accountjunit.srj:

The value of org.suiterunner.Runpath (-p "example") specifies a runpath with a single directory, example.
The value of org.suiterunner.Suites (-s com.artima.examples.account.ex6test.AccountTestCase) indicates that Artima SuiteRunner should load the specified class, a subclass of junit.framework.TestCase, and run it.
The value of org.suiterunner.Reporters (-g) indicates that Artima SuiteRunner will display its graphical user interface (GUI) and show the results of the run there.

When invoked via the previous command that specifies accountjunit.srj as a command line parameter, Artima SuiteRunner will:

Create a URLClassLoader that can load classes from the example directory, the directory specified in the recipe file's org.suiterunner.Runpath property.
Via the URLClassLoader, attempt to load class com.artima.examples.account.ex6test.AccountTestCase, the class specified in in the recipe file's org.suiterunner.Suites property.
Discover via a NoClassDefFoundError that the com.artima.examples.account.ex6test.AccountTestCase class can't be loaded because its superclass, junit.framework.TestCase, can't be found.
Abort the run and reports the NoClassDefFoundError to the user.

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