Setting Solr up to easily run tests through the IDE should be about as simple with any IDE of your choosing.
I do it with eclipse. It takes a couple basic steps: 1. Add the correct libraries to your classpath - all the jars in lib and example/lib (for jetty jars). 2. Add the build/solr build/solrj build/test folders to your classpath. 3. Set your working directory to ${workspace_loc:solrtrunk}/src/test/test-files/ (In eclipse, the opening variable here is a path to the project base dir - for other IDE's, change to what makes sense). Now you should be good to go. (In eclipse, its best to add the jars/folders to the project classpath, rather than to the single test Run configuration - else you will have to do it for every test - instead, add it to the project build path and then set the working directory for each test Run configuration.) Now its easy to run tests one at a time, or to debug, or whatever. Not quite as simple to get going as Lucene, but once you have it up, its the same dev pleasure. - Mark