I want to run a maven project lifecycle starting, and ending, with the unit tests.
How can I skip recompilation and re-resolution of dependencies and only run the test phase?
If you start maven by calling a phase it will execute all lifecycle phases up to the one you are calling. For example, when calling
mvn test
all the phases before the test lifecycle phase will be execute too: the project will be validated, sources and resources will be generated and processed, sources will be compiled, the same will happen to test sources and resources and finally unit tests will be run.
But you can also call the plugin goal that is bound to a lifecycle phase. In the case of the test phase the bound goal is surefire's test mojo. So you could call
mvn surefire:test
and no other lifecycle phase will be executed.
You can find the goals bound to each phase depending on the package type here.
You can run :
mvn surefire:test
Build your own lifecycle, or run the tests with something besides Maven (Ant, Gradle, your IDE, command-line JUnit runner, ...). That's the kind of restriction you live with when you're using Maven.
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i am trying to build maven command to run specific test:
i want to be able to execute this:
mvn test
mvn integration
mvn specificdata
so each test will go into a folder and run the suite
src/test
src/integration
src/specificdata
mvn test works with the test folder but when i run
mvn specificdata i get
[ERROR] Unknown life-cycle phase "specificdata".
same for integration
how can i make mvn run these tests independently?
This cannot be done in the way you describe it.
test is a phase and as such, part of the standard lifecycle. Calling mvn test does not only run tests, but executes the phases before test as well.
The standard lifecycle also offers phases for integration tests, esp. integration-test. Integration tests are usually put into src/test as well and distinguished by a naming convention. But beware: Calling mvn integration-test will call all previous phases (including test, compileetc.) as well.
https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-lifecycle.html
I use junit in my java project (developed using intellij idea) for unit test, and I want to configure build step in team city to run my unit tests only. I also use maven to build my project. It works when I set goals for maven to "clean compile" but I dont know how to configure build step to run unit tests.
Also in command line. when i run "maven test" it runs unit tests correctly and shows the failures.
I can't comment on TeamCity, but I'll try to help anyway out of my maven knowledge.
So first of all mvn clean compile will never run your unit tests, because maven has a concept of lifecycle and testing phase is coming after compile phase.
When you run mvn test it will run all the face up to (including) the test phase so the unit tests will run as a part of maven default lifecycle.
Now you're asking about a "build step for running unit tests" from which I conclude that you need a separate step. In maven phase is nothing more than running a series of plugins. In maven plugin has goals, so you can run a plugin responsible for running unit tests directly.
In maven this plugin is called "surefire" and a goal is called "test", so you can run:
mvn surefire:test
Given the classes (production code and tests) are compiled, you will see that this only runs your unit tests. So this probably has to be configured in Team City.
I'm running the following sonar command with maven:
mvn clean compile sonar:sonar
I'd like to just run:
mvn sonar:sonar
(ie have the sonar task trigger the clean and compile steps)
Is there a way to express this as a dependency in maven?
Quick Answer: No - not by declaring dependencies nor by having the plugin be in charge of the lifecycles and their phases to be run prior to the plugin's goal.
By mvn clean compile sonar:sonar you are instructing Maven to first run the entire clean-lifecycle with all its phases - then continoue with the default lifecycle to the phase compile and finally to call the goal sonar of the plugin sonar - i personally think the command is relativly short for what is going on and must not be simplified any further (what would be the actual benefit of a shorter command executing the same phases/ goals in the background?).
You can however bind plugins to certain build phases so that if the phase is run (say the phase process-classes right after phase compile in the default lifecycle) the plugin's goal will be executed automaticially.
This would abstract the need of explicitly calling sonar:sonar and allow for example to just call mvn clean process-classes and have sonar:sonar beeing executed in the process-classes phase of the default lifecycle.
Now to come back to your question one could generally ask if a Maven plugin can take controll of the lifecycles and phases beeing executed prior to its own goal which is as faar as i know not possible with "standard Maven techniques" (I however dont know of the possibilities if you write your own plugin).
I'm working with a maven project, and are trying to run only the integration tests, while skipping unit tests.
I'm running the integration tests using failsafe plugin, and the plugin execution is bound to the integration-test phase.
Is there any way I can run only the integration tests, while skipping the unit tests (which are run via surefire).
My googling led to a page that shows me how to do the opposite.
If you want to skip the test you have two choices:
mvn -Dskip=true ...
which will not compile the tests nor execute them (logical ;-)). The other option is just to skip the execution of the tests but doesn't skip the compilation of the tests
mvn -DskipTests=true ...
But you can't skip the test lifecycle phase in Maven.
It seems that the assembly plugin (or jar/war plugin) are just dumb.
They just can't figure out whenever there is just nothing to do.
A basic "Makefile" won't recompile a target if all its dependencies are older than the target.
For maven, it seems that the packaging is done "all the time" !
if I do "mvn package" and then "mvn integration-test", Maven will process the packages again and again.
Since I build some fat-standalone jars : it takes a while !
Is it also the way is works for you, or is there something broken in my configuration.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Raphaël
In Maven exists a Life-Cycle which is run through every time you call a phase.
mvn integration-test
means to run all phases which are before integration-test (incl. integration-test itself) which includes in your case the package phase. Furthermore you shouldn't call integration-test cause the post-integration-test will not run in this case. You should call mvn verify instead.
The result from the above is you should simply call mvn integration-test and the package phase will run automatcially. Maven is not Make.