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

[Thomas Diesler]

I looked into this and it turns out that it cannot get fixed easily.

For background info: We used to have the ARQ server side components 
available as a subsystem. This is the thing that receives the remote JMX 
invocation, runs JUnit on the server and reports the test results back. 
It was then decided to remove that subsystem and provide these services 
dynamically as part of the ARQ TestSuite#Start lifecycle. The code that 
was contained in the ARQ subsytem is now assembled on the client side 
and deployed to AS as the arquillian-service deployment.

This ARQ deployment has a few dependencies on the server components and 
the OSGi subsystem. The dependency on OSGi is necessary because test 
class loading works differently when the test case is contained in a 
bundle. Additionally the osgi subsystem needs to be bootstrapped if 
there is a test deployment that needs it.

The API incompatibilities could be overcome but there is also a 
fundamental semantic change with respect to 7.2.1.Final. We now have a 
Module attached to the DU for a successfully resolved bundle. This 
however is an error condition in the 7.2.1.Final ARQ service.

I propose to release a recent snapshot of the jboss-as/arquillian maven 
modules. That 3rd party can use to run their tests against the 7.2.x 
code base.

cheers
--thomas

On 09/17/2012 05:12 PM, 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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