# Using additional test types Sample

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- Groovy DSL

- Kotlin DSL

| You can open this sample in an IDE that supports Gradle.

This sample shows how to add additional test types to a JVM project in Gradle. Your project may have many different kinds of tests—​unit tests, integration tests, functional tests, etc. A JVM project in Gradle has a single `Test` task, but other tasks can be added to represent each of these test types.

In this sample, we are testing Java projects with JUnit5; however, this applies to other JVM languages as well.

Concretely, we add a convention plugin in `buildSrc` to share the integration test setup between multiple subprojects:

buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/myproject.java-conventions.gradle.kts

    plugins {
        java
    }

    version = "1.0.2"
    group = "org.gradle.sample"

    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }

    val integrationTest by sourceSets.creating

    configurations[integrationTest.implementationConfigurationName].extendsFrom(configurations.testImplementation.get())
    configurations[integrationTest.runtimeOnlyConfigurationName].extendsFrom(configurations.testRuntimeOnly.get())

    tasks.test {
        useJUnitPlatform()
    }

    val integrationTestTask = tasks.register<Test>("integrationTest") {
        description = "Runs integration tests."
        group = "verification"
        useJUnitPlatform()

        testClassesDirs = integrationTest.output.classesDirs
        classpath = configurations[integrationTest.runtimeClasspathConfigurationName] + integrationTest.output

        shouldRunAfter(tasks.test)
    }

    tasks.check {
        dependsOn(integrationTestTask)
    }

    dependencies {
        testImplementation("org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter:5.7.1")
        testRuntimeOnly("org.junit.platform:junit-platform-launcher")

        "integrationTestImplementation"(project)
    }

buildSrc/src/main/groovy/myproject.java-conventions.gradle

    plugins {
        id 'java'
    }

    version = '1.0.2'
    group = 'org.gradle.sample'

    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }

    def integrationTest = sourceSets.create('integrationTest')

    configurations[integrationTest.implementationConfigurationName].extendsFrom(configurations.testImplementation)
    configurations[integrationTest.runtimeOnlyConfigurationName].extendsFrom(configurations.testRuntimeOnly)

    tasks.named('test') {
        useJUnitPlatform()
    }

    def integrationTestTask = tasks.register('integrationTest', Test) {
        description = 'Runs integration tests.'
        group = 'verification'
        useJUnitPlatform()

        testClassesDirs = integrationTest.output.classesDirs
        classpath = configurations[integrationTest.runtimeClasspathConfigurationName] + integrationTest.output

        shouldRunAfter(tasks.named('test'))
    }

    tasks.named('check') {
        dependsOn(integrationTestTask)
    }

    dependencies {
        testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter:5.7.1'
        testRuntimeOnly 'org.junit.platform:junit-platform-launcher'

        integrationTestImplementation project
    }

And apply it in an application project:

application/build.gradle.kts

    plugins {
        id("myproject.java-conventions")
        application
    }

    dependencies {
        implementation(project(":list"))
        implementation(project(":utilities"))
    }

    application {
        mainClass = "org.gradle.sample.app.Main"
    }

application/build.gradle

    plugins {
        id 'myproject.java-conventions'
        id 'application'
    }

    dependencies {
        implementation project(':list')
        implementation project(':utilities')
    }

    application {
        mainClass = 'org.gradle.sample.app.Main'
    }

And in library projects:

utilities/build.gradle.kts

    plugins {
        id("myproject.java-conventions")
        `java-library`
    }

    dependencies {
        implementation(project(":list"))
    }

utilities/build.gradle

    plugins {
        id 'myproject.java-conventions'
        id 'java-library'
    }

    dependencies {
        implementation project(':list')
    }

These additional tests can be executed with the `integrationTest` task or as part of lifecycle `check`:

    $ ./gradlew check

    BUILD SUCCESSFUL
    14 actionable tasks: 14 executed

For more information, see section Configuring integration tests in the Testing in Java project chapter.