Share test resources between maven projects

Question

There is a clear solution for sharing the common test code between maven projects using test-jar goal of maven-jar-plugin plugin (see here).

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Answer 1

There is already a goal to build a test jar from maven.

Assuming you need something a little more flexible, you can use the jar plugin to package your test resources and run that goal with the main package goal with something like this.

      
        org.apache.maven.plugins
        maven-jar-plugin
        
          
            package
            
              jar
            
            
              test-resources
              
                **/*.whatever-you-want
              
            
          
        
      

Whatever you want bundled would be added to the project-name-version-test-resources.jar when the jar goal is run.

You could then include it in a project via the same dependency you use above.