I used to do this with a special goal in the maven.xml but since it no longer graces m2, I would love to hear a solution as well.
- Brill Pappin On 11/2/05, Dave Neuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, here's my situation, I really hope someone can help figure out how > to do this. > > I have currently got 2 projects, one's a library, the other is more like > an application, and depends on the library. The lib project tests only > use Mocks, because they're "common" objects not tied to a product or > database instance. > > The "app" project depends on both the lib jar and the lib-test jar (in > order to reuse abstract test logic. This has been working great since > the test-jar feature was added in beta 3. > > Now, unfortunately, some of our tests in the "app" take a LOOOOONNNNG > time to run (i.e., tests that insert hundreds of thousands of rows into > the DB). > > We really don't want to be in a situation where the tests take so long > to run that developers don't run them, thereby checking in buggy code. > So, the idea was we'd separate out the horrendously long ones and run > them nightly or something. > > Problem is, I can't figure out a good way to do this. "Lib" and "app" > are both modules in a top level project, normally we do "mvn install" > from the top-level directory to run all of the tests. > > So, if I add another project "long tests" as a module, the long tests > will be run each time by the developers. If I don't add it as a module > in the top-level project, running it in its own directory requires that > the other modules' jars are installed -- which is fine except that once > that is done once, it won't automatically be done again, and so changes > in the other projects won't be picked up. > > So is there a way, either with profiles w/ a different test name > pattern, or declaring the top-level pom as a parent in the "long running > test" project, to ensure that the other projects are built fresh when > the long tests are run? > > Thanks in advance. > > Dave > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
