Maven

Maven

• Software project management, central repository to
• Artifacts - files, usually a JAR, that gets deployed to a Maven repository
• GroupId - will indentify project uniquely across all projects
• archetype:generate - Generates new project from an archetype

Installation

• Install maven locally - Download link
  • Copy path to file and add to sys variables as MAVEN_HOME
  • Add path to /bin folder to Path - click and then new
• Link for maven repository
• Maven in 5 minutes
• install dependencies in pom.xml
• choose maven-archetype-quickstart - for quickstarting projects

pom.xml

• Dependencies / plugins

  • Maven surefire plugin - executes all test cases - + configuration for testng.xml

            <plugin>
               <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
               <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
               <version>3.0.0-M5</version>
        <configuration>
        <suiteXmlFiles>
          <suiteXmlFile>testng.xml</suiteXmlFile>
        </suiteXmlFiles>
      </configuration>
           </plugin>

  • Maven surefire commands

       mvn --version
       mvn clean - delete all temporary files - recommended before execution
       mvn compile - check syntax errors
       mvn test - trigger test execution
       mvn -Dtest=TestName test - run a single test

  • Maven common problems with compiling Link

  • Profiling

    • Make annotation with id - NAme of them and paste build tag inside to make multiple profiles xml mvn test -PRegression