JUnit test annotated with '@Ignore'/'@Disabled'

Reports usages of JUnit 4's @Ignore or JUnit 5's @Disabled annotations. It is considered a code smell to have tests annotated with these annotations for a long time, especially when no reason is specified.

Example:

  @Ignore
  public class UrgentTest {

    @Test
    public void testIt() {
      Assert.assertEquals("expected", "actual");
    }
  }

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.

IgnoredJUnitTest

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 | JUnit

Configure the inspection:

Use the Only report annotations without reason option to only report the cases when no reason is specified as the annotation's value attribute.

Inspection ID: IgnoredJUnitTest

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the JUnit test annotated with '@Ignore'/'@Disabled' inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Only report annotations without reason

Option ID:

onlyReportWithoutReason

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 IgnoredJUnitTest

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

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3, Qodana for JVM 2025.3,

Last modified: 03 December 2025