IMPORTANT: I don't maintain this project anymore (actually, from a long time ago). For a (not tested by me) fork, see https://github.com/Hazem-Ben-Khalfallah/test-cherry. Generates Test Cases is a port of Eclipse's generate test cases plugin described here: http://wiki.openmrs.org/display/archive/Generate+Test+Case+Eclipse+Plugin This project aims to make it easier to make TDD with a really cool and easy approach that consist in annotating interface method with desired behaviours like this: public interface Person { /** * * @return * @should say hello, and nothing more that that */ String sayHello(); } So with this plugin you could generate a test class for this interface like this one automatically: import org.junit.Assert; import org.junit.Test; public class PersonTest { /** * @see Person#sayHello() * @verifies say hello, and nothing more that that */ @Test public void sayHello_shouldSayHelloAndNothingMoreThatThat() throws Exception { //TODO auto-generated Assert.fail("Not yet implemented"); } } And then test your implementation code like this public void sayHello_shouldSayHelloAndNothingMoreThatThat() throws Exception { assertThat(intance.sayHello(), is("hello world")); } This way you can realize that for testing this behaviour you just wrote the should annotation in the sut (system under test) in a really descriptive way. /** * * @return * @should say hello, and nothing more that that */ String sayHello(); Auto-generated the test class and test method (using the plugin) and then tested the actual expected behaviour with (hamcrest style junit test): assertThat(intance.sayHello(), is("hello world")); Nothing more. Instructions to compile it and run it in development stage ------------------------------------------------------------ By the time it is strongly coupled to Intellij Community Edition 9.0.3, and the folders that contains the plugin files need to reside in the plugins/ folder in the D:\jaime\intellij\ideaIC-95.429 Furthermore if you want to build and run ideaIC-95.429 you will need to place a jar generated for the plugin because of you have putted plugin's directory in the same directory that the idea project, and to the time I don't know how to let idea project to build the plugin for itself. Another thing needed to run unit tests is to copy java\mockJDK residing in ideaIC-95.429\ to C:\Documents and Settings\JHABLUTZEL\.IntelliJIdea90\system\plugins-sandbox\test because when you run a unit test "C:\Documents and Settings\JHABLUTZEL\.IntelliJIdea90\system\plugins-sandbox\" is the home path for the plugin.