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I noticed that I had one @BeforeClass method to set up some system properties. Removing this, my tests executes properly and obvious fail as it depends on system property

@BeforeClass
    public static void assumeFeatureFlag() {
        assumeTrue("Feature flag is enabled", Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty(FeatureFlags.REP_TYPE)));
    }

This question has absolutely nothing to do with Gradle. It is purely about whatever test framework you are using. Besides that, the test is doing exactly what you tell it to. Assume the flag is true or else skip the test.

Two things: •

Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty(…))

is equivalent to

Boolean.getBoolean(…)

• To set the system property for your tests, configure it on your test task: https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.tasks.testing.Test.html

Or he simply sets the property in the

@BeforeClass

method using

System.setProperty

and maybe resets it to the previous value in

@AfterClass

. With Spock as testing framework this could simple be done using a

@ResetSystemProperties

Annotation on the test. 🙂