Starting external process during integration testing in maven

Question

I want completely automated integration testing for a Maven project. The integration tests require that an external (platform-dependent) program is started before running.

Answer 1

You could use the antrun plugin. Inside you would use ant's exec apply task.

Something like this.

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-antrun-plugin
    1.2
    
      
          
        

          
            
              
              
              
            
            
              
              
              
            
          

        
        
          run
        
      
    
  

Ant support os specific commands of course through the condition task.