I had the basic idea to install SonarQube on a server fully automatically. This is of course nothing new. I've set that challenge for me to level up my Ansible skills a bit and also get more details into the setup for a later step while going into a Kubernetes cluster setup. In relation to that I've setting up a server …

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Overview If you are using Apache Maven I suppose you have configured several plugins within your pom file already. As an example we use the Maven Enforcer Plugin to prevent starting a given build with a Maven version which is less than 3.5.0 which looks like this: 1<project> 2 <build> 3 <plugins> 4 <plugin> 5 …

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In the previous part of the series - Maven Plugin Testing - In a Modern way - Part V we have seen how to define system properties to run Maven. In this part we will take a deeper look how we can define profile(s) for a Maven call to be used. Let us take a look at a simple example taken from the previous part. …

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In the previous part of the series - Maven Plugin Testing - In a Modern way - Part IV we have seen how to define goals to run Maven. In this part we will take a deeper look how we can define system properties for a Maven call to be used. Let us take a look at a simple example taken from the previous part. …

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In the prevous part of the series - Maven Plugin Testing - In a Modern way - Part III we have seen how to define command line options. In this part we will take a deeper look which goals will run for each test case and how we can change that. Let us start with simple example test case like the following: …

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In the second part of the series - Maven Plugin Testing - In a Modern way - Part II we have seen how to make the basic integration test while checking the log output of Maven builds. In this third part we will dive into how Maven will be called by default during the integration tests and how we can influence that …

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In the first part of the series - Maven Plugin Testing - In a Modern way - Part I we have seen how to make the basic setup with The Integration Testing Framework and run very basic integration test. In this second part we will take a deeper look into other aspects of testing Maven plugins in particular how we check the …

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You have decided to write a Maven Plugin. Now the important part comes around the corner: How to test a Maven Plugin? There are in general several options to test a Maven Plugins for example: Maven Invoker Maven Verifier Maven Plugin Testing Harness etc. You can read about different reason not to use one of those …

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The story started with a Twitter Post about the JDK method bitCount which is available for Long and Integer types. If you take a look into the time line, there was a reply https://twitter.com/ScottSelikoff/status/1254185742760280064 by @ScottSelikoff (funny comment of course) who stated 42 as the answer to life, the …

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Based on todays requirements it is needed to do a continuous delivery of your artifacts by each change on your master (Git)/trunk(SVN). The question is what you need to achieve this with Maven? Usually you are using so called SNAPSHOT versions which means your version looks like 1.2.3-SNAPSHOT and indicates that you …

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