Continuous testing with IntelliJ Idea

IntelliJ now actually has a Toggle auto-testin the run dialog. Just run a run-configuration and then select Toggle auto-testin the run dialog.

It's not as intelligent as you would have hoped. It just reruns when it detects changes.

I know this is a 3-year-old question but I think it will help people who face the similar problem in future. So I found out a way to enable SBT style auto test execution in IntelliJ studio.

We need to do 2 things to enable auto test execution.

1. Enabling auto project build - This can be done in settings by going into File -> Settings -> Build, Execution... -> Compiler and selecting "Build Project automatically".

2. Enabling "Toggle auto-test" in run dialog box

This will start auto testing. Although this works fine, it takes time to build the project even when my project is tiny so for larger projects it will certainly take very long time to complete the build and execute tests.

Reference: Original article which explains these steps

If you are OK running tests which cover a single method chosen by you, you can try this plugin (it is continuos in the sense that you make changes to a method, then click on the method and the plugin will run all the unit tests automatically which cover that method): https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/15063-unit-test-coverage-history-runner