Asiri's Laboratory

While working on my gsoc project i came across a situation where i had to test a servlet while it is deployed within a servlet container. The requirement is simple; make some requests to the servlet and check whether the servlet responds correctly. After some googling i finally figured out how to put the pieces together in just two easy steps:

Configure jetty to start execution just before the “integration-test” phase and stop when all integration tests are run:

  org.mortbay.jetty
  jetty-maven-plugin
  7.0.0pre1
  
    /xwiki-webdav
    0
    stop
    9999
  
  
    
      start-jetty
pre-integration-test
      
        run
      
      
        0
        true
      
    
    
      stop-jetty
post-integration-test
      
        stop
      
    
  

Configure surefire tests so that integration tests are separated from usual unit tests:

  org.apache.maven.plugins
  maven-surefire-plugin
  
    
      **/*TTest.java
    
  
  
    
      surefire-it
integration-test
      
        test
      
      
      
        **/*ITest.java
      
      
    
  

That’s it, now simply execute `mvn integration-test`