Maven - deploy webapp to tomcat before JUnit test

Question

I have webapp which provides web service. I want to perform JUnit tests with SoapUI to check if this service is working properly.
But to test web service application has

Answer 1

As Stephen Connolly explains there is no a direct way to configure this. I will explain how to solve this using failsafe plugin. In the maven lifecycle type of test can be tested. Unit testing one of them and another one is integrate testing. Unit testing can be run in the test stage of maven lifecycle. When you want to do integrate test it can be done in verify stage. If you want to know the difference between unit testing and integrate testing, this is a good one. By default unit test classes should be in ***/*Test.java, and **/*TestCase.java this format. The failsafe plugin will look for **/IT*.java, **/*IT.java, and **/*ITCase.java.

Here is an example.

Here I have one unit test class and one integrate test class. Now I will explain, how should be the looks like maven pom.xml. Build section of maven configuration should look like this.

    
        
            maven-war-plugin
            2.3
            
                src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
                ${name}
                /home/jobs/wso2/wso2as-5.3.0/repository/deployment/server/webapps
                
                
            
        

        
            maven-compiler-plugin
            3.1
            
                1.7
                1.7
            
        

        
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-failsafe-plugin
            2.12.4
            
                
                    integration-test
                    
                        integration-test
                        verify
                    
                
            
        
    

Unit tests are run before deploying the web app(war file). But integrate tests are run in verify stage. I hope your requirement is satisfied in this stage.