Is there a Java continuous testing plugin for Maven?

Question

I'm looking for a plugin that would run in a console continuously to scan a Maven project's test sources directory, and when it detects a change kicks off a test cycle. Something analogous to mvn scala:cc or the Scala Build Tool, but for Java. Can anyone point me towards one?

Answer 1

I have personally used sbt even for a java only project just for continuous test feature.

I added a sbt build file to a maven based project and use sbt when developing, but use maven when building the final package, starting embedded jetty etc and this has worked out quite well.

Answer 2

I've just discovered that the scala-maven-plugin supports both continuous compilation & testing, as well as cross-compilation (Java + Scala). So it's possible to use it over a pure Java build and get all the continuous build goodness.

Answer 3

Recently, I have had a need for a solution to this. Having been learning scala and finding about the goodness of sbt ~test, I want to apply it to Java projects that do not have continuous test.

Using the scala-maven-plugin that you mentioned, I have created a github seed that will run Java Junit tests everytime I save a Java source or a Java test.

Check it out: https://github.com/ailveen/maven-scala-java-continuous-test

The project is very simple right now (contains only Java files because that is my current need) but in the future I hope to add scala test (or specs2 or scalacheck) so it works with mixed java and scala files.

Hope you find it useful.

Answer 4

It is not exactly for Maven, but JUnit Max does continuous testing and if you're on Eclipse it might be the tool you would like to check out