Martijn - I've seen this done a couple of different ways. I can't say
that there is any particular set of advantages/disadvantages that makes
one more attractive than another. I'm sure you've already thought about
these, but here they are, just the same:
#1 - The functional tests are named with a specific suffix (ex. _FT) so
that they can be included/excluded by profile. They still live in the
src/test/java tree alongside the unit tests. In this case, you must
explicitly include and/or exclude tests based on a pattern matching
their class names.
#2 - Place all of your functional tests in a different source tree (ex.
src/functionalTest/java). As with #1, you have to do some
include/exclude type work, but in this case, you only have to do so on
your profile that runs the functional tests. However, you also have to
make sure to include this tree on your compilation.
So, IMHO, there's no clear winner. I've been dealing with similar
problems lately for Integration Tests that actually start up my web app
and test it using Selenium. I have the same set of problems. I think I
read that there are plans to enhance Maven with the knowledge of
functional/integration tests, but I don't know what the timing for any
such change is.
Dave
The specific purpose in this case is to ensure that we've wired up
messaging flow(s) within our module. This is done by sending a mocked event
through the various routers/transformers etc that we have. They're not unit
tests because they're not testing a discrete bit of functionality within a
Java class.
However, it is vital that these tests pass before we package that module,
so I we want to run them as part of a the test life-cycle (as opposed to
integration-test which is post package) or at least a life-cycle phase that
is before package.
I agree that we could use profiles to run this group of tests separately,
but I'd like to understand where they should live in the source structure.
All of the Maven literature that I have read talks of <module
name>-->test-->src-->java being used for unit tests, but tests such as mine
fall into a grey area?
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