[jbosstools-dev] Eclipse plugins testing structure

Hi, I'm currently trying to improve test structure for Jboss Fuse Tooling project (https://github.com/fusesource/fuseide). On Max recommendation, I take a look at jbosstools-devdoc https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-devdoc/blob/master/source/how_to... When i take a look to https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-server/blob/master/as/tests/org.... . This project is in tests folder but it launches tycho-surefire-plugin. As far as I understand Tycho, it means that it is launching an OSGi platform. From my point of view, it means that these tests are already integration tests and the only difference between tests and itests currently is more fast vs slow tests. What I wanted to achieve is to have really fast unit test, so I created a fragment and so use maven-surefire-plugin. You can see the fragment https://github.com/fusesource/fuseide/tree/master/editor/tests/org.fuseso... and the parent pom configuration: <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.19.1</version> <executions> <execution> <id>test</id> <phase>test</phase> <configuration> <systemProperties> <osgi.nls.warnings>ignore</osgi.nls.warnings> </systemProperties> <includes> <include>**/*Test.java</include> </includes> </configuration> <goals> <goal>test</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho</groupId> <artifactId>tycho-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <version>${tychoVersion}</version> <configuration> <useUIThread>true</useUIThread> <useUIHarness>true</useUIHarness> <includes> <include>**/*IT.class</include> </includes> <argLine>${tycho.testArgLine} -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError</argLine> </configuration> </plugin> Did I misunderstood something? Are there counterpoints to use fragments and maven-surefire-plugin? Are there other examples which are matching more closely to my usecase in jboss tools codebase? Thanks by advance for your help -- Aurelien Pupier Senior Software Engineer in JBoss Fuse Tooling Team @apupier