Hi all, I've released the first experimental version of jcabi-mysql-maven-plugin, which starts MySQL server at pre-integration-test phase and shuts it down on post-integration-test phase. With this plugin you can write integration tests against an on-demand MySQL server, avoiding the necessity to mock it with in-memory databases or relying on a always-running testing server.
The plugin is in github, please feel free to submit ideas/bugs: https://github.com/jcabi/jcabi-mysql-maven-plugin — Yegor Bugayenko www.tpc2.com