testing Clojure in Maven

Question

I am new at Maven and even newer at Clojure. As an exercise to learn the language, I am writing a spider solitaire player program. I also plan on writing a similar program i

Answer 1

You probably want to point testSourceDirectory at src/test/clojure:

<sourceDirectory>src/main/clojure</sourceDirectory>
<testSourceDirectory>src/test/clojure</testSourceDirectory>

Answer 2

You can look to this example of pom.xml with clojure-maven-plugin & tests. By default, clojure-maven-plugin should generate test-runner automatically, as described in documentation.

And it's better to use latest version of clojure-maven-plugin - 1.3.2, in which there are several bugs were fixed

Answer 3

I would not expect the surefire plugin to run something else than Java tests so, with your current setup, there is indeed "No tests to run". I suggest to use the clojure-maven-plugin here. Also check Why using Maven for Clojure builds is a no-brainer.

Answer 4

The key bit you're missing from your pom.xml (just cribbing from the clojure-contrib pom.xml) is an execution under the clojure-maven-plugin:

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.theoryinpractise</groupId>
    <artifactId>clojure-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.3.2</version>
    <!-- Current Config -->
    <executions>
        <!-- ... -->
        <execution>
            <id>test-clojure</id>
            <phase>test</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>test</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

It may also be necessary to add something like this under <build/>:

<testResources>
    <testResource>
      <directory>src/test/clojure</directory>
    </testResource>
</testResources>