I do exactly as Dave Ford does - I keep my unit test classes in the same packages as the production code under test. I find it good for the same reasons as Dave outlines, and separating them at delivery time using ant <excludes> in a fileset is very very simple (once you stick to a consistent naming convention). I took this practise from some junit documentation I read.
There's probably little point in discussing the merits and demerits of this practice: it's enough perhaps to say that a lot of developers do things in both ways and it would be great of maven could facilitate both approaches. Brendan. -----Original Message----- From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 July 2003 17:59 To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Keeping your test source code in a separate, but parallel source tree On Saturday, July 12, 2003, at 12:20 PM, Dave Ford wrote: > The Maven web site lists "Keeping your test source code in a separate, > but > parallel source tree" as best practices. > > Q1: Why is this a best practice? It just seems like an extra thing to > maintain to me, making package name refactoring for troublesome. I've > been > placing my test class next to the tested class. > > smartsoft.util.Date > smartsoft.util.DateTest > > By naming them this way, they appear next to each other in dir > listings. True, although I rarely ever go digging around in the directory to see what's there. Generally tools do a good job, such as Eclipse or Idea. The advantage I see is that you get to have test code that has package-level access and because it's in a separate tree, it's easy to build binaries that don't include all the test code... geir > > Q2: If I want to continue my practice of keeping them together, is > there any > way to get Maven to support that? > > Thanks > > > Dave Ford > Smart Soft - The Developer Training Company > http://www.smart-soft.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Geir Magnusson Jr 203-956-2604(w) Adeptra, Inc. 203-434-2093(m) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 203-247-1713(m) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
