Maven test dependency in multi module project

Question

I use maven to build a multi module project. My module 2 depends on Module 1 src at compile scope and module 1 tests in test scope.

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Answer 1

As https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-jar-plugin/examples/create-test-jar.html says:

How to create a jar containing test classes When you want to create a jar containing test-classes, you would probably want to reuse those classes. There are two ways to solve this:

1. The easy way Create an attached jar with the test-classes from the current project and loose its transitive test-scoped dependencies.

2. The preferred way Create a separate project with the test-classes.

Please read that article for detail.