To consider when arquilling

After a few weeks of real world testing with Arquillian I’ve noticed a few things to consider when building integration tests. These items should grow or evolve, here or in other post, as experience is gained.

To manage provided dependencies. The building of a project most of the time considers dependencies to libraries, toolkits, frameworks, etc., and for each of them you define a scope. You find some to be provided-scoped as your company’s login jar, the jee6-spec.jar library, etc. What’s to consider here is that these libraries are provided by the environment, so they don’t need to be in your deployment file. If you just drop them in your deploy or lib folders when you start the container, without your test file yet, you can make sure the can actually deploy by them selves. Then, if your test-deployment-file fails to deploy it’s less likely because of the provided dependencies. Read the rest of this entry »