I noticed that for Kotlin not sure about other languages, Cursor doesn’t support built-in test runner functionality that IntelliJ IDEA has.
Cursor doesn’t currently have a GUI way to run individual tests like the green play button you’d find in other IDEs.
I have to run the test command in terminal and it doesn’t work for individual tests using gradle.
You can install for most languages test runners from the marketplace. Have you checked if there is a Kotlin related extension?
Yes I have installed Test Explorer and also Kotlin. I think when I asked Cursor chat, it mentioned it doesn’t have it. This is why I am doing a feature request; it doesn’t exist.
Cursor Chat wouldnt know about this. It works mainly with your code and depends on you to tell it what to use.
Do you use any test framework or tools in oder IDEs?
Some use Java Test Runner or Java Test Runner but that depends how you have setup your tests.
Yes I have Java Test Runner, and all plugins, JUnit5 as well. It works fine on IntelliJ. But again, Cursor doesn’t have GUI test runner (no green button as IntelliJ does). Gradle’s default CLI does not easily support running individual test methods, especially in Kotlin due to name mangling and method signature differences. You can only run test like this:
./gradlew test --tests "com.example.MyTestClass.myTestMethod"
This is why I am asking whether this will be added as feature.
Yes I understand, the closest i see is the extension Test Runner for Java vscjava.vscode-java-test.
Usually for each language users install related extensions e.g. language support, test runners etc. This is not something Cursor provides directly as there are too many languages to cover all. Plus VSCode on which Cursor is based provides most such extensions. However I am not sure if there is a better Kotlin test runner available as 3rd parties make such extensions.