@ValueSource provides a simple way to feed literal values to a @ParameterizedTest.

Java source and doc

Definition of ValueSource

package org.junit.jupiter.params.provider;
   ........
@Target({ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE, ElementType.METHOD})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Documented
@API(status = STABLE, since = "5.7")
@ArgumentsSource(ValueArgumentsProvider.class)
public @interface ValueSource {
    short[] shorts() default {}; 1
    byte[] bytes() default {}; 2
    int[] ints() default {}; 3
    long[] longs() default {}; 4
    float[] floats() default {}; 5
    double[] doubles() default {}; 6
    char[] chars() default {}; 7
    boolean[] booleans() default {}; 8
    String[] strings() default {}; 9
    Class<?>[] classes() default {}; 10
}

Example

package com.logicbig.example;

import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.ValueSource;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;

public class ParameterizedValueSourceTest {

    @ParameterizedTest(name = "run #{index} with argument={0}")
    @ValueSource(strings = {"madam", "racecar", "level", "radar"})
    void palindromeShouldBeTrue(String candidate) {
        assertTrue(isPalindrome(candidate));
    }

    private static boolean isPalindrome(String s) {
        int i = 0, j = s.length() - 1;
        while (i < j) {
            if (s.charAt(i++) != s.charAt(j--)) {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }

    @ParameterizedTest
    @ValueSource(ints = {1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21})
    void testIsPositive(int number) {
        assertTrue(number > 0);
    }

    @ParameterizedTest
    @ValueSource(strings = {"", "  ", "\t", "\n"})
    void testIsBlank(String input) {
        assertTrue(input.trim().isEmpty());
    }
}

mvn test -Dtest=ParameterizedValueSourceTest

Output

D:\example-projects\junit-5\junit-5-parameterized-tests\junit-5-parameterized-valuesource>mvn test -Dtest=ParameterizedValueSourceTest
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] 
[INFO] -------< com.logicbig.example:junit-5-parameterized-valuesource >-------
[INFO] Building junit-5-parameterized-valuesource 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO]   from pom.xml
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- resources:3.3.1:resources (default-resources) @ junit-5-parameterized-valuesource ---
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory D:\example-projects\junit-5\junit-5-parameterized-tests\junit-5-parameterized-valuesource\src\main\resources
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- compiler:3.14.1:compile (default-compile) @ junit-5-parameterized-valuesource ---
[INFO] No sources to compile
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- resources:3.3.1:testResources (default-testResources) @ junit-5-parameterized-valuesource ---
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory D:\example-projects\junit-5\junit-5-parameterized-tests\junit-5-parameterized-valuesource\src\test\resources
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- compiler:3.14.1:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ junit-5-parameterized-valuesource ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date.
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- surefire:3.5.0:test (default-test) @ junit-5-parameterized-valuesource ---
[INFO] Using auto detected provider org.apache.maven.surefire.junitplatform.JUnitPlatformProvider
[INFO] 
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]  T E S T S
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] +--com.logicbig.example.ParameterizedValueSourceTest - 0.203 ss
[INFO] |  +-- [OK] testIsPositive(int)[1] 1 - 0.037 ss
[INFO] |  +-- [OK] testIsPositive(int)[2] 2 - 0.001 ss
[INFO] |  +-- [OK] testIsPositive(int)[3] 3 - 0.001 ss
[INFO] |  +-- [OK] testIsPositive(int)[4] 5 - 0.002 ss
[INFO] |  +-- [OK] testIsPositive(int)[5] 8 - 0.001 ss
[INFO] |  +-- [OK] testIsPositive(int)[6] 13 - 0.002 ss
[INFO] |  +-- [OK] testIsPositive(int)[7] 21 - 0.001 ss
[INFO] |  +-- [OK] palindromeShouldBeTrue(String) run #1 with argument="madam" - 0.004 ss
[INFO] |  +-- [OK] palindromeShouldBeTrue(String) run #2 with argument="racecar" - 0.001 ss
[INFO] |  +-- [OK] palindromeShouldBeTrue(String) run #3 with argument="level" - 0.001 ss
[INFO] |  +-- [OK] palindromeShouldBeTrue(String) run #4 with argument="radar" - 0.002 ss
[INFO] |  +-- [OK] testIsBlank(String)[1] "" - 0.002 ss
[INFO] |  +-- [OK] testIsBlank(String)[2] " " - 0.002 ss
[INFO] |  +-- [OK] testIsBlank(String)[3] "\t" - 0.003 ss
[INFO] |  '-- [OK] testIsBlank(String)[4] "\n" - 0.001 ss
[INFO] 
[INFO] Results:
[INFO] 
[INFO] Tests run: 15, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
[INFO] 
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  3.105 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2025-12-04T19:43:07+08:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Example Project

Dependencies and Technologies Used:

• junit-jupiter-engine 6.0.1 (Module "junit-jupiter-engine" of JUnit)
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