Maven Unit / Integration Test Guide (MaUI Test Guide)

Describe the best practice for doing unit and integrations tests in Maven.

The Idea of this module based on http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1563.

License

Apache License, Version 2.0, January 2004

Homepage

The Maven Unit Integration Test Guide http://khmarbaise.github.com/maui

Name

• MaUI Test Guide

Roadmap

• Unit Testing with Maven

  • maven-surefire-plugin

• Integration Testing with Maven

  • maven-failsafe-plugin

• Integration Testing in Maven Plugin Development

  • maven-invoker-plugin

• Code Coverage for Unit Testing

  • Cobertura, Emma http://mojo.codehaus.org/emma-maven-plugin/index.html http://mojo.codehaus.org/cobertura-maven-plugin/index.html

• Code Coverage for Integration Testing

  • Coberatura?, Emma4it ?

  • How to do this?

  • http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/06/integration-tests-with-maven-part-2-test-coverage-reports/

  • http://blog.jayway.com/2008/12/13/getting-coverage-for-integration-tests/

  • https://github.com/activelylazy/coverage-example

  • http://www.petrikainulainen.net/programming/maven/creating-code-coverage-reports-for-unit-and-integration-tests-with-the-jacoco-maven-plugin/

• mvn release:.... -Darguments="-Dxxxx" caused by calling instance during release process.

• JBehave

  • http://jbehave.org/reference/stable/maven-goals.html

Status

• First description about unit test and integration test done.

TODOs

• Integration test into separate module

  • examples how to use cargo?

• Maven Plugin Development

  • Unit Test examples
  • Integration test examples
    • for example with Maven Invoker Plugin

• Maven Unit Testing

  • Example for multiple usage:
    • copy xyz-test.jar into target/test folder (dependency:unpack) run the tests there..

• Reporting Unit Tests results

• Reporting code coverage results

• Reporting Integration test results

• Reporting Integration test coverage results.

Naming Convention for the examples

• Prefixes of the projects:

  mp - Maven Plugin

  ut - Unit Test

  it - Integration Test

  ut- - Unit Test

  it- - Integration Tests

  mp-it-... - Maven Plugin - Integration Test