Hi all We have a lot of problems with our integration tests, and I would like to share out thoughts with you. I saw voting for Maven 2.0.2 has started, so this is last minute to change something before 2.0.2.
1. I think that the two new phases: before/after-integration-test should be renamed to pre/post-integration-test. The prefixes would be similar to pre/post-site and pre/post-clean. What do you think? 2. We cannot compile our intergation tests sources with maven-compiler-plugin because we cannot change compileSourceRoots. Firstly it is readonly, and secondly there is no way to set them in configuration in pom file. We had to write our own it compiler plugin by copying almost all sources from TestCompilerMojo.java. What would be the best solution? Changing one of the standard compiler mojos? Adding additional generic mojo without "readonly"'s, with possibility to set source roots, etc? Maybe something else. I don't like what we had to do - copy/paste a lot of source from one of maven-compiler-plugin mojos. Pablo from my team wrote about it today, and Bob Allison here: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MCOMPILER-13. 3. Now all our artifacts for integration testing (there are lot of them) have "test" scope. So they are included in unit testing classpaths too. Would it be ok to add another scope - "it" to separate it artifacts from unit testing artifacts? 4. ... more later ... Greg
