(Just repeating what Vincent wrote already) When you invoke 'mvn test', you tell maven to run the default lifecycle up to phase 'test', which _already_ includes the phases 'compile' and 'test-compile'. Check that link to the lifecycle documentation.
In your case, you probably used an older version of the compiler plugin or had not activated the incremental compilation - which would explain why the test-compile phase did nothing. You could check your build log for the "nothing to compile" message (or something like that). In order to be sure that everything is up-to-date, also invoke the 'clean' phase of the 'clean' lifecycle: 'mvn clean test'. 2013/11/19 Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]> > Thanks all, that helps! > > In the future, could `mvn test` automatically call `mvn test-compile` every > time, in case src/main/ code has changed that affects src/test/ code? > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Vincent Latombe > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hi, > > you should use mvn clean test to make sure compilation happens everytime. > > Otherwise, you can check recent versions of maven-compiler-plugin (3.1) > > which introduced some incremental compilation support [1]. > > > > And yes, mvn compile will only compile main source code, you should check > > the lifecycle reference [2] > > > > [1] > > > > > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/compile-mojo.html#useIncrementalCompilation > > [2] > > > > > http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-lifecycle.html#Lifecycle_Reference > > > > Vincent > > > > > > 2013/11/19 Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]> > > > > > I was refactoring some code, when I noticed unit test errors to do with > > > missing methods, as I had forgotten to also refactor my unit tests. > These > > > sorts of errors should have been caught at compile time, but `mvn test` > > was > > > blissfully running the tests anyway. > > > > > > How can I force `mvn compile` to compile src/test/java/**.java files as > > > well? > > > > > > -- > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Andrew Pennebaker > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > -- > Cheers, > > Andrew Pennebaker > [email protected] >
