I suggest creating a separate project, e.g. "TestFramework", and place those types of reusable test classes in its src/main/java. Then, the other projects can depend on it for the test scope.
-----Original Message----- From: Giovanni Azua [mailto:brave...@swissonline.ch] Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 1:15 PM To: 'Maven Users List' Subject: where to place Test support/reusable fixture classes? Hi, I have a multi module project and in one of the top nodes of the dependency tree I would like to place a Test support class i.e. AbstractHibernateHSQLTestCase extends junit.framework.TestCase This class provides automatic database shutdown of HSQL in memory based test cases to prevent the creation of the inconvenient test.lck and test.log files. My problem is that I don't know where to place this utility class. Ideally I would place it in the test branch of module A but then it will not be inherited by sub-modules that depend on A say B and C. On the other hand if I place it under the java branch of module A, then A will compile/runtime depend on JUnit which I want to avoid at all costs. I remember I had this same problem trying to define reusable test fixtures classes but in the hurry I ended up duplicating the fixture classes under each sub-module. TIA, Regards, Giovanni --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
