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twic on March 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's in a Build Tool?

Maven is really not insanely flexible. I have a build in which i wanted three distinct test phases (unit, functional, and API contract). A simple requirement. But i couldn't have that without writing a plugin, or breaking out a dummy module for one of them. We ended up making the contract tests a special case of the unit tests, selected by passing in some flags; a consequence of that is that it's impossible to run both sets of tests in a single build.

tl;dr: Maven is the exact opposite of flexible.

tdurden on March 5, 2016 [–]

creating profiles specific to each might help

twic on March 5, 2016 | [–]

I think i still couldn't run all three sets of tests in one build though, right?

tdurden on March 6, 2016 | | [–]

You can activate multiple profiles per build if needed.

twic on March 6, 2016 | | [–]

But i can't run a goal twice under different profiles, can i?

tdurden on March 8, 2016 | | [–]

No, but you can tie multiple plugin executions to a single phase.

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