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Peter Ansell commented on MNG-1378: ----------------------------------- One alternative if you need to depend on a testsuite that is published by a different module to ensure that the testsuite is published as a "jar", not a "test-jar", and it is pulled into "test" scope in the local module, with all of its dependencies. I have used this "testsuite-module" + "testrunner-module" pattern successfully in the past to publish both concrete and abstract testclasses, although generally only for compliance tests where a specific interface or protocol is being tested based on a well known specification. > Make dependencies of test-jars transitive > ----------------------------------------- > > Key: MNG-1378 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1378 > Project: Maven > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Dependencies > Affects Versions: 2.0 > Reporter: Mark Hobson > Fix For: Issues to be reviewed for 3.x > > Attachments: mng1378.tar.gz > > > test-jar transitive dependencies are calculated as per compile scope rather > than test scope. > The situation is demonstrated nicely in it0077: > * module sub1 has a test-scoped dependency of commons-lang > * module sub2 has a test-scoped dependency of sub1 test-jar > sub2 tests should inherit the commons-lang transitive dependency. For > example: > Index: > maven-core-it/it0077/sub2/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it0077/PersonTwoTest.java > =================================================================== > --- > maven-core-it/it0077/sub2/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it0077/PersonTwoTest.java > (revision > 328307) > +++ > maven-core-it/it0077/sub2/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/it0077/PersonTwoTest.java > (working > copy) > @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ > package org.apache.maven.it0077; > import junit.framework.TestCase; > +import org.apache.commons.lang.BooleanUtils; > public class PersonTwoTest > extends PersonTest > Results in: > [INFO] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE > [INFO] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [INFO] Compilation failure > c:\maven-components\maven-core-it\it0077\sub2\src\test\java\org\apache\maven\it0077\PersonTwoTest.java:[4,31] > package org.apache.commons.lang does not exist -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.6#6162)