Question

I want completely automated integration testing for a Maven project. The integration tests require that an external (platform-dependent) program is started before running. Ideally, the external program would be killed after the unit tests are finished, but is not necessary.

Is there a Maven plugin to accomplish this? Other ideas?

Answer 1

You could use the antrun plugin. Inside you would use ant’s exec apply task.

Something like this.

<plugin>     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>     <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>     <version>1.2</version>     <executions>       <execution>         <phase> <!-- a lifecycle phase --> </phase>         <configuration>            <tasks>             <apply os='unix' executable='cmd'>               <arg value='/c'/>               <arg value='ant.bat'/>               <arg value='-p'/>             </apply>             <apply os='windows' executable='cmd.exe'>               <arg value='/c'/>               <arg value='ant.bat'/>               <arg value='-p'/>             </apply>           </tasks>          </configuration>         <goals>           <goal>run</goal>         </goals>       </execution>     </executions>   </plugin> 

Ant support os specific commands of course through the condition task.