Updating junit gives compilation error at @Rule and TestName

Question

Have been using @Rule from junit using 4.12 . But today updated to 4.5

    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/junit/junit -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>junit</groupId>
        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
        <version>4.5</version>
    </dependency>

Getting error on compiling the code on

@Rule
public TestName name = new TestName();

package org.junit.rules does not exist

cannot find symbol [ERROR] symbol: class Rule [ERROR] location: package org.junit

Has this been removed? Any alternatives to it?

Answer 1

Moving from version 4.12 to 4.5 feels more like downgrading than updating.

@Rule was introduced in 4.7 version of junit , thus it cannot be found.

Now the most stable version of junit is 4.12 , at least this is the latest one that you could find in maven repository . However, junit5 was introduced on 7.7.2016 and you could use it if you apply this dependency:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.junit</groupId>
   <artifactId>junit5-api</artifactId>
   <version>5.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
   <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>