could you please share your way of unit testing in eclipse ? Are you using surefire plugin, m2eclipse & maven, or only testNG eclipse plugin ? Do you combine these alternatives ?
I'm using testNG + maven surefire-plugin and I had been using the testNG eclipse plugin a year ago so that I could see the results in testNG view. Then I started using Maven, but when I do "maven test phase" using m2eclipse, there is only console output and surefire reports that I can check in browser and to choose what test suite, test, or test method can be set up only via testng.xml.
On the other hand, if you use only surefire plugin and you have some specific settings regarding classpath etc., that you rely on, then running tests via testNG eclipse plugin doesn't have to be compatible with your code. Using surefire plugin, the classpath is different - target/test-classes and target/classes - than using testNG plugin, that is using the project classpath.
How do you go about what I was just talking about?
Is it possible to synchronize "maven test" using m2eclipse and surefire plugin WITH testNG eclipse plugin and view ?
EDITED: I'm also wondering, why the Maven project ("Java build path") output folder is target/classes for src/main and src/test whereas surefire plugin makes two locations target/test-classes and target/classes
Thank you very much for your your opinions.
I don't think it is true what you say with the different runtime classpath, I just checked myself both maven classpath and the one when test is run via testNG eclipse plugin and both are the same. I think that m2eclipse plugin takes care of it. It's the same even for junit testing.
So afaik, there is no restriction for using testNG eclipse plugin for development and surefire plugin for instance for continuous integration as Heiko Rupp mentions. At least I have never gotten any troubles with it.
Just use both as you like, cheers !