Run a spring boot app located on another project before running karate tests? [duplicate] - spring-boot

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I'm trying to build some karate tests to a spring boot application. Here's the project structure :
co-training-backend (parent)
|_ co-training-rest (maven module)
|_ co-training-rest-karate (maven module)
If i run the server and launch the karate tests everything works fine. Now i'd like to automate that by running the server from the rest-karate module.
Here's my config :
class CoTrainingTests {
private static ConfigurableApplicationContext context = null;
#BeforeAll
public static void setUp() throws Exception {
context = SpringApplication.run(RestBootstrap.class, new String[]{});
}
#Karate.Test
Karate testAll() {
return Karate.run().relativeTo(getClass());
}
#AfterAll
public static void tearDown() throws Exception {
if(context!=null)
context.stop();
}
}
pom.xml
<artifactId>co-training-rest-karate</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
<junit-jupiter.version>5.6.2</junit-jupiter.version>
<karate.version>0.9.6</karate.version>
<maven.compiler.version>3.8.1</maven.compiler.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/junit/junit -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
<version>${junit-jupiter.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.intuit.karate</groupId>
<artifactId>karate-apache</artifactId>
<version>${karate.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.intuit.karate</groupId>
<artifactId>karate-junit5</artifactId>
<version>${karate.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<!-- this is the spring boot rest project -->
<dependency>
<artifactId>co-training-rest</artifactId>
<groupId>com.co.training</groupId>
<version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<testResources>
<testResource>
<directory>src/test/java</directory>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</testResource>
</testResources>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${maven.compiler.version}</version>
<configuration>
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
<source>${java.version}</source>
<target>${java.version}</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.22.2</version>
<configuration>
<argLine>-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8</argLine>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
If i run the tests from the command line i have this maven compiler error :
mvn clean test
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.8.1:testCompile (default-testCompile) on project co-training-rest-karate: Compilation failure
[ERROR] /home/salto/tutorials/co-training/co-training-backend/co-training-rest-karate/src/test/java/cotraining/CoTrainingTests.java:[3,28] package com.co.training.rest does not exist
but this class exists in the rest dependency :
ls /home/salto/.m2/repository/com/co/training/co-training-rest/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/co-training-rest-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
/home/salto/.m2/repository/com/co/training/co-training-rest/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/co-training-rest-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
any idea ?

Answer 1

You can use the integration-test phase of the maven lifecycle:
pre-integration-test: start the co-training-rest module
integration-test: run you karate integration tests
post-integration-test: shut down the co-training-rest module and do
any other necessary cleanup