Avoid Thread.sleep in Java unit tests

#Metadata

Rule ID

java.testing.thread-sleep-in-unit-test

Severity

low

Confidence

0.6

Languages

java

Presets

recommended, strict

Stability

experimental

Applies to

block

Tags

java, rules-catalog, testing

#Why it matters

Prefer Awaitility, latches, or deterministic test doubles.

#Remediation

Use synchronization primitives, timeouts with polling, or move timing coverage to integration tests.

#Repository path

The generated metadata points to critiq-rules/libs/rules/catalog/rules/java/java.testing.thread-sleep-in-unit-test.rule.yaml.