Refactor and improve unit testing
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Key: MASSEMBLY-128
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MASSEMBLY-128
Project: Maven 2.x Assembly Plugin
Type: Improvement
Versions: 2.1
Reporter: John Casey
Priority: Blocker
Fix For: 2.2
The current implementation of the assembly plugin is that of a few really hard
to manage monoliths, from which all the mojos extend. Also, the tests included
in this plugin are not true unit tests, but more functional tests, in that they
test the entirety of a mojo under a particular use case, as if it were a black
box.
If we break the assembly plugin's abstract classes up into a reasonable set of
helper/utility classes, we should be able to unit test individual pieces of the
system without resorting to black-box testing of an entire mojo. This should
improve the resilience of these tests when a new feature is added. Currently,
it's nearly impossible to add a feature without spending a day trying to figure
out why the tests are failing (a day is not an exaggeration, BTW).
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