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Protected Junit Method

I am wondering how you can work with a protected method in Junit.

Assuming I want to test class A, which has a protected member and constructor. I realized that for testing class A, I have to write another ATest class that can extend TestCase (this should be mandatory in Junit3). Since I want to test a protected method and because A has a protected constructor, my test class ATest also needs to extend the class A where this method is implemented in order to be able to create this class and access this method.

maybe double inheritance from both classes is a good solution?

PS I already knew that in Junit 4 you can avoid inheritance from TestCase.

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To access A protected members, you can simply put A and ATest in the same package.

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Java does not allow multiple inheritance of an implementation. You can implement several interfaces.

I would rather use reflection to get testing methods that I don't want to know about. It works for private methods.

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