Document how to import and run a smoke tests in the IDE

[jamesward]

Seems like there should be a way to run an individual smoke test but I can't find it. Would be great to have this info in the CONTRIBUTING.adoc file.

[snicoll]

@jamesward I am not sure I got that. Do you mean a smoke test module (and all the tests within it) or one particular test class or one particular test within a class?

[jamesward]

I'm trying to just run spring-boot-tests/spring-boot-smoke-tests/spring-boot-smoke-test-web-static and it appears that I can go into that dir and run ../../../mvnw test but I'm not totally certain if that is right.

[jamesward]

I'm also trying to figure out how to run the smoke test from my IDE so I can do some debugging.

[snicoll]

Thanks for the feedback. The smoke tests are quite specific as they're invoked in a particular way and are not declared as individual modules.

If you don't have maven installed or want to rely on the wrapper, that command works yes. Here is more details about how to use it with sub-modules.

If you want to import a smoke test in IntelliJ IDEA, you can right click on the pom of the project you're interested in (i.e. spring-boot-tests/spring-boot-smoke-tests/spring-boot-smoke-test-web-static/pom.xml) and invoke "Add as a Maven project". I can only assume other IDEs have a similar feature.

We can improve the current contributing page but I am not sure about what you're asking as it falls more in the documentation of the maven wrapper or the IDE you are using IMO. Flagging for team attention to see what the rest of the team thinks.

[jamesward]

Thanks for the quick response. What I was hoping I could do is to run a smoke test like I run a project's unit tests. That would enable me to pick a specific one to run, make change to the underlying stuff to retest, and debug into the underlying stuff via an IDE if needed.