[infinispan-dev] Uber jars testing

[Jiri Holusa]

Hi all,

we've been thinking for a while, how to test ISPN uber jars. The current status is that we actually don't have many tests in the testsuite, there are few tests in integrationtests/all-embedded-* modules that are basically copies of the actual tests in corresponding modules. We think that this test coverage is not enough and more importantly, they are duplicates.

The questions are now following: 
* which tests should be invoked with uber-jars? Whole ISPN testsuite? Only integrationtests module?
* how would it run? Create Maven different profiles for "classic" jars and uber jars? Or try to use some Maven exclusion magic if even possible?

Some time ago, we had discussion about this with Sebastian, who suggested that running only integrationtests module would be sufficient, because uber-jars are really about packaging, not the functionality itself. But I don't know if the tests coverage is sufficient in that level, I would be much more confident if we could run the whole ISPN testsuite against uber-jars.

I'm opening this for wider discussion as we should agree on the way how to do it, so we could do it right :)

Cheers,
Jiri