provide a way to test plugins without installing them
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Key: MNG-1421
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1421
Project: Maven 2
Type: Improvement
Components: maven-core
Versions: 2.0
Reporter: fabrizio giustina
Sometimes unit tests for plugins can't be really affordable (other than harder
to write) when not using a "real" maven execution. Manually setting needed
properties in the Mojo and calling execute() is error prone, doesn't test real
parameters from pom.xml, and it's hard to deal wih multiprojects...
Maven should provide a way to test plugins without installing them and a base
class for testing. Ideally, plugins found on the classpath should always be
used instead of the currently installed version. (btw, that's how also the
Eclipse plugin environment work: when a plugin is found on the classpath, it's
loaded and the currently installed version is ignored).
A plugin test should be easy to write just like:
MavenTest maven = new MavenTest(); // load a new maven test instances, plugins
found in classpath override installed ones
maven.setBaseDir(basedir);
maven.setProfile(myprofile);
maven.execute("eclipse:eclipse")
At the moment this is really needed in the site plugin and eclipse plugin
(actually some tests are performed executing maven from command line)
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