Question

I have existing JUnit4 test cases which I run from Eclipse and as a part of Maven. Now I am looking to perform stress tests by leveraging them. I noticed Maven is not packaging them as a part of the build. How do I go about it?

Answer 1

This will attach the tests (and their sources) in a separate jar:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>attach-sources</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>jar</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
        <execution>
            <id>attach-test-sources</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>test-jar</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>test-jar</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>test-jar</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Afterwards you can use them as a dependency by using the type test-jar.