When working with Maven projects, the Surefire plugin is commonly used to execute tests, but it lacks a built-in feature to display the total execution time across all test suites. This can be particularly important when monitoring performance trends in larger projects with many test classes. Maven’s Surefire plugin reports execution time for individual test […]
This is probably the beginning of a series of articles about testing Maven plugins. I’ll start with the Maven Embedder, which allows you to run an embedded Maven from a Java program. Note that we’re not simply running a locally installed Maven binary from a Java program; we run Maven taken from a Java library. […]
UI tests are delicate since when you run them, you must not interact with the computer, or you will disturb the tests, which will likely fail. In Linux, you can use Xvfb, but windows will not have a title, which might break UI tests that rely on that. For example, Eclipse SWTBot tests work best […]