Running spring tests from executable jar

Question

I have some Spring tests which spin up the application context and tests some services. I am able to run these tests using Maven and through IDE. Now I have a requirement to

Answer 1

I have just forked your repository and I found the error. Spring factory must be the same than the one is used when test are thrown by maven. It is a must to delegate into Spring Ic in the same way like test context.

See pull request for aditional information:

https://github.com/SaiUpadhyayula/executabletests/pull/2

Answer 2

I finally found the problem after debugging the test, it turns out that Spring while bootstrapping the TestContext will look for the TestExecutionListener's defined inside the META-INF/spring.factories file inside the spring-test jar.

This spring.factories file should be ideally placed inside the META-INF folder of my executable jar. But what the assembly-plugin does is, it was not adding the right spring.factories file which contains the necessary TestExecutionListener's

adding this file to src/main/resources/META-INF/spring.factories solved the problem

# Default TestExecutionListeners for the Spring TestContext Framework
#
org.springframework.test.context.TestExecutionListener = \
    org.springframework.test.context.web.ServletTestExecutionListener,\
    org.springframework.test.context.support.DirtiesContextBeforeModesTestExecutionListener,\
    org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener,\
    org.springframework.test.context.support.DirtiesContextTestExecutionListener,\
    org.springframework.test.context.transaction.TransactionalTestExecutionListener,\
    org.springframework.test.context.jdbc.SqlScriptsTestExecutionListener

# Default ContextCustomizerFactory implementations for the Spring TestContext Framework
#
org.springframework.test.context.ContextCustomizerFactory = \
    org.springframework.test.context.web.socket.MockServerContainerContextCustomizerFactory

Answer 3

You need to install maven on the other machine to run the tests.

If maven installation is not an viable option, create a jar containing the test classes and use this jar for running the tests. check the maven documentation - http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-jar-plugin/examples/create-test-jar.html