If you are using JUnit 4, then you can use @Ignore annotation to disable a test case; what this means is that any method which is annotated by @Ignore, will not be executed by JUnit. Why would you want to disable a test? Well, It may be because that particular test is for functionality that is not yet implemented fully, and because of that your build is failing. Like that there could be some other scenarios where you would like to temporarily disable a test or a group of tests. From JUnit 4 onward test methods are annotated with @Test, so if they are also annotated with @Ignore will not be executed as tests.