ScalaTest Maven Plugin

Building ScalaTest Maven Plugin

Maven 3 is used to manage the build process. To build this plugin, please make sure you have the following installed:-

• The Git command line tools
• A recent JDK (the current Oracle JDK is recommended)
• Maven 3 (http://maven.apache.org/download.html)

You then clone and checkout master trunk:-

$ git clone git://github.com/scalatest/scalatest-maven-plugin.git

$ cd scalatest-maven-plugin

Finally use the following commands to build for ScalaTest Maven Plugin:

$ mvn clean package

The built output will be available in target/.

Using ScalaTest Maven Plugin

To use the ScalaTest Maven plugin, you need to disable SureFire and enable ScalaTest. Here's an example of how to do this in your pom.xml:

<!-- disable surefire -- >
<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.7</version>
  <configuration>
    <skipTests>true</skipTests>
  </configuration>
</plugin>
<!-- enable scalatest -- >
<plugin>
  <groupId>org.scalatest</groupId>
  <artifactId>scalatest-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.2.0</version>
  <configuration>
    <reportsDirectory>${project.build.directory}/surefire-reports</reportsDirectory>
    <junitxml>.</junitxml>
    <filereports>WDF TestSuite.txt</filereports>
  </configuration>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>test</id>
      <goals>
        <goal>test</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

Ignore When ScalaTest Not Available

This plugin expects the you to include ScalaTest dependency used by the your project. By default, if you do not include a ScalaTest dependency, this plugin will fail the build, if you would like to ignore or skip running this plugin when ScalaTest is not in the classpath, you can set noScalaTestIgnore to true in configuration like this:

...
<configuration>
  <noScalaTestIgnore>true</noScalaTestIgnore>
</configuration>
...

Deploying to Sonatype

Add the following into settings.xml (please replace username and password):

<servers>
  <server>
    <id>sonatype-nexus-staging</id>
    <username>xxx</username>
    <password>yyy</password>
  </server>
</servers>

Then run the following command:

> mvn clean deploy -Prelease -Dmaven.test.skip=true