[jboss-as7-dev] Coping with cyclic test dependencies

[Paul Robinson]

Brian,

I don't think forwards compatibility can be guaranteed. We've had a few problems in the past where the the jboss-as-arquillian-container-managed dependency was set to a different version of AS7 to that which we were testing against. 

Here's a specific example: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBTM-1243 and https://github.com/jbosstm/quickstart/pull/18/files for the fix. In this example we were using the jboss-javaee-6.0-with-tools bom to get the jboss-as-arquillian-container-managed dependency version. This bom set the version to 7.1.1.Final, which failed to work with 7.2.0.Alpha1-SNAPSHOT. So, in this case we would need to match up the releases.

I don't recall the specifics of other occasions, but it's certainly happened to us a few times.

Paul.

On 17 Sep 2012, at 16:24, Brian Stansberry <brian.stansberry at redhat.com> wrote:

> Does JBossTS need to use the same arquillian container version as is 
> included with the latest AS? I'm no Arquillian expert, but it seems like 
> if that's required something has gone wrong with our Arquillian 
> integration. Seems like the idea would be to make these containers 
> forward compatible.
> 
> Apologies if I'm all wet here.
> 
> On 9/17/12 10:12 AM, Paul Robinson wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> JBoss transactions uses Arquillian for some of the project tests.
>> Therefore JBossTS has a dependency on AS7 (for the Arquillian container
>> dependency), but as AS7 consumes JBossTS, the target AS7 version is not
>> available when we do the release of JBossTS. We get around this at the
>> moment by referencing a SNAPSHOT version of AS7 in the Arquillian
>> container dependency. However, this does mean that our release will
>> reference the SNAPSHOT dependency.
>> 
>> This must be a common issue that other projects have. I was wondering
>> what the accepted pattern was to solve this issue?
>> 
>> Paul.
>> 
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