Integration testing maven plugins

Question

There are five choices listed in the maven documentation on testing maven plugins:

• maven-verifier
• maven-invoker-plugin
• shitty-maven-plugin
• maven-it-plugin
• maven-plugin-management-plugin

I've tried a few of these and had a number of problems:

• maven-verifier appears to have only a limited set of verifications -- I need to be able to make arbitrary assertions
• shitty-maven-plugin has a bug that prevents it working with maven 3
• nethier maven-plugin-management-plugin nor maven-it-plugin are stable and don't seem to be under active development

Is anyone able to recommend any of these plugins? Can you provide some example configuration?

Answer 1

The best thing i can recommend is the maven-invoker-plugin, cause it's can handle many situations and produces a real maven environment with all things which you really need to do integration test in relationship with Maven Plugins.