Test class without tests

Reports non-abstract test cases without any test methods. Such test cases usually indicate unfinished code or could be a refactoring leftover that should be removed.

Example:

  public class CrucialTest {
    @Before
    public void setUp() {
      System.out.println("setting up");
    }
  }

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

JUnitTestCaseWithNoTests

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | JVM languages | Test frameworks

Use the Ignore test cases which have superclasses with test methods option to ignore test cases which have super classes with test methods.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Test class without tests inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Ignore test cases which have superclasses with test methods: Default value:
Selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection JUnitTestCaseWithNoTests

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025