@Retention(RUNTIME) @Target(METHOD) public @interface AfterAllTests

Annotation for procedures to run after all the tests have run. This can be useful for tasks like deleting files that were created for testing purposes or for closing Internet connections that aren't needed after the tests have run. If no such tasks are needed in a test class, this annotation is not necessary.

A procedure with this annotation ought to give some indication that it has successfully completed its assigned wrap-up or tear-down tasks, such as by writing a message to that effect to the console.

A procedure with this annotation should be public but not static. It will run after any procedures annotated BeforeAllTests, BeforeEachTest, Test or AfterEachTest. That is guaranteed because I have written tests for this in the test class for TestRunner.

One test class may have more than one procedure annotated @AfterAllTests. I make no guarantees as to what order multiple procedures with this annotation will run in, other that they won't run before procedures with the other annotations from this package unless they are explicitly called directly. Nor do I make any promises that later releases of this framework will behave in the same way with multiple annotations of this kind in the same test class.

For that reason, if a test class has multiple annotations of this kind, they should not depend on each other to run in any particular order.

In any case it's preferable for a test class to only have one procedure with this annotation, if any. Such a procedure may make calls to private helper procedures.

You may use any identifier the compiler allows, but it's recommended that it be something that clearly indicates what the procedure does, such as tearDownClass().

Since:: 1.0
Author:: Alonso del Arte

Annotation Type AfterAllTests