How can I skip tests in maven install goal, while running them in maven test goal?
It sounds like you didn't understand the concept of the build life-cycle in Maven. If you run mvn install
all life-cycle phases (including the install
phase itself) run before the install phase. This means running the following phases:
- validate
- initialize
- generate-sources
- process-sources
- generate-resources
- process-resources
- compile
- process-classes
- generate-test-sources
- process-test-sources
- generate-test-resources
- process-test-resources
- test-compile
- process-test-classes
- test
- prepare-package
- package
- pre-integration-test
- integration-test
- post-integration-test
- verify
- install
which means in other words the test
as well as integration-test
life-cycle phases are included. So without any supplemental information it's not possible to change the behaviour as you wish it.
It could be achieved by using a profile in Maven:
<project>
[...]
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>no-unit-tests</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<skipTests>true</skipTests>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
[...]
</project>
So your first requirement:
- If I run
mvn install
, I want all tests to compile, but I do not want to execute any.
can be achieved by using the following:
mvn -Pno-unit-test test
- If I run
mvn test
, I want all tests to compile, but execute only unit tests.
This can simply achieved by using the plain call:
mvn test
cause the integration tests phase is not run (see the build life cycle).
- If I run
mvn integration-test
, I want to compile and execute all tests.
This means running the default which includes running the test
phase which will run the unit tests (maven-surefire-plugin) and furthermore running the integration test which are handled by the maven-failsafe-plugin. But you should be aware that if you like to call the integration tests you should using the following command:
mvn verify
instead, cause you missed the post-integration-test
phase in your previous call.
Apart from the above you should follow the naming conventions for unit and integration tests where unit tests should be named like the following:
<includes>
<include>**/*Test*.java</include>
<include>**/*Test.java</include>
<include>**/*TestCase.java</include>
</includes>
and integration tests should be named like the following:
<includes>
<include>**/IT*.java</include>
<include>**/*IT.java</include>
<include>**/*ITCase.java</include>
</includes>
I hope you have configured the maven-failsafe-plugin like the following which is needed to bound the maven-failsafe-plugin to the correct life-cycle-phases:
<project>
[...]
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.15</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>integration-test</goal>
<goal>verify</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
[...]
</project>
as you correctly did, but you should be aware that the include
tags work on the source code (.java) and not on the compiled names (.class). I wouldn't use the Category annotation, just simply using the naming conventions makes the pom simpler and shorter.
According to the Failsafe Plugin documentation
mvn install -DskipITs
is what you want.
What OP stated in his question:
If I run mvn install, I want all tests to compile, but I do not want to execute any.
If I run mvn test, I want all tests to compile, but execute only unit tests.
If I run mvn integration-test, I want to compile and execute all tests.
is perfectly valid and extremely easy to achieve.
EDIT: except first condition, which acts againts the maven nature. The best way here would be simply do mvn install -DskipTests
All you need is following snippet in pom.xml
:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.17</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>integration-tests</id>
<goals>
<goal>integration-test</goal>
<goal>verify</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
and to stick to the maven naming conventions for unit and integration tests (as @khmarbaise already stated). So generally name you integration tests with IT
suffix (for example MyIntegrationTestIT.java
) and let maven-failsafe
do its job.
In that way, you do not even need JUnit categories (although sometimes they can be quite useful).
That's it :)
mvn test
executes only unit testsmvn integration-test
executes all testsmvn failsafe:integration-test
runs only integration testsmvn clean verify
when you want to be sure, that whole project just works
Some personal advices
Keeping integration tests separately from unit tests lets you easily run within your IDE all tests in some package. Usually additional directory called test-integration
(or integrationtest
) is used for this purpose.
This is also easy to achieve with maven:
<plugin>
<!-- adding second test source directory (just for integration tests) -->
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.9.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>add-integration-test-source</id>
<phase>generate-test-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>add-test-source</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<sources>
<source>src/test-integration/java</source>
</sources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
And then move your integration tests to that directory. It should look like:
src
main
test
test-integration
Integration tests usually needs more memory:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
...
<configuration>
<argLine>-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m</argLine>
</configuration>
</plugin>