In the Project sidebar on the left, right-click your project and do New > Directory. Name it "test" or whatever you like.
Right-click the folder and choose "Mark Directory As > Test Source Root".
Adding JUnit library
Right-click your project and choose "Open Module Settings" or hit F4. (Alternatively, File > Project Structure, Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S is probably the "right" way to do this)
Go to the "Libraries" group, click the little green plus (look up), and choose "From Maven...".
Search for "junit" -- you're looking for something like "junit:junit:4.11".
Check whichever boxes you want (Sources, JavaDocs) then hit OK.
Keep hitting OK until you're back to the code.
Write your first unit test
Right-click on your test folder, "New > Java Class", call it whatever, e.g. MyFirstTest.
Write a JUnit test -- here's mine:
import org.junit.Assert;
import org.junit.Test;
public class MyFirstTest {
@Test
public void firstTest() {
Assert.assertTrue(true);
}
}
Run your tests
Right-click on your test folder and choose "Run 'All Tests'". Presto, testo.
To run again, you can either hit the green "Play"-style button that appeared in the new section that popped on the bottom of your window, or you can hit the green "Play"-style button in the top bar.
Basically, you only need junit.jar on the classpath - and here's a quick way to do it:
Make sure you have a source folder (e.g. test) marked as a Test Root.
Create a test, for example like this:
public class MyClassTest {
@Test
public void testSomething() {
}
}
Since you haven't configured junit.jar (yet), the @Test annotation will be marked as an error (red), hit f2 to navigate to it.
Hit alt-enter and choose Add junit.jar to the classpath
There, you're done! Right-click on your test and choose Run 'MyClassTest' to run it and see the test results.
Maven Note: Altervatively, if you're using maven, at step 4 you can instead choose the option Add Maven Dependency..., go to the Search for artifact pane, type junit and take whichever version (e.g. 4.8 or 4.9).
I needed to enable the JUnit plugin, after I linked my project with the jar files.
To enable the JUnit plugin, go to File->Settings, type "JUnit" in the search bar, and under "Plugins," check "JUnit.
vikingsteve's advice above will probably get the libraries linked right. Otherwise, open File->Project Structure, go to Libraries, hit the plus, and then browse to
C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 14.1.1\lib\