How to profile Intellij Idea's JUnit trial run using VisualVM

Question

How to profile Intellij Idea's JUnit trial run using VisualVM? VisualVM does not see any process? can this be done?

Answer 1

There is a plugin for JVisualVM mentioned in this question . With it, you can also run test cases.

Answer 2

Note that the recent IntelliJ IDEA has integrated Java Flight Recorder and async-profiler support, which are more accurate than VisualVM:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/cpu-profiler.html