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## Chapter 7. Executing the Test Suite

This chapter explains how to run the TCK on Weld as well as your own implementation. The CDI TCK uses the Maven Surefire plugin and the Arquillian test platform to execute the test suite. Learning to execute the test suite from Maven is prerequisite knowledge for running the tests in an IDE, such as Eclipse.

## 7.1. The Test Suite Runner

The test suite is executed by the Maven Surefire plugin during the test phase of the Maven life cycle. The execution happens within a TCK runner project (as opposed to the TCK project itself). Weld includes a TCK runner project that executes the CDI TCK on Weld running inside WildFly 10.x. To execute the CDI TCK on your own CDI implementation, you could modify the TCK runner project included with Weld to use your CDI implementation.

## 7.2. Running the Tests In Standalone Mode

To execute the TCK test suite against Weld, first switch to the jboss-tck-runner directory in the extracted TCK distribution:

    cd jsr346/tck/weld/jboss-tck-runner

## Note

These instructions assume you have extracted the jsr346-related software according to the recommendation given in The TCK Environment.

Then execute the Maven life cycle through the test phase:

    mvn test

Without any command-line flags, the test suite is run in standalone mode (activating weld-embedded Maven profile), which means that any test within the integration, javaee-full and SE TestNG group is excluded. This mode uses the Weld EE Embedded Arquillian container adapter to invoke the test within a mock Java EE life cycle and capture the results of the test. However, passing the suite in this mode is not sufficient to pass the TCK as a whole. The suite must be passed while executing using the in-container mode.

## 7.3. Running the Tests In the Container - Core and EE parts

To execute tests within Core and EE parts of the specification you need to use in-container mode with the JBoss TCK runner, you first have to setup WildFly as described in the Running the TCK against the CDI RI callout.

Then, execute the TCK runner with Maven as follows:

    mvn test -Dincontainer

The presence of the `incontainer` property activates an incontainer Maven profile. This time, all the tests except the tests within SE TestNG group are executed.

In order to run tests appropriate to the Jakarta EE Web Profile execute:

    mvn test -Dincontainer=webprofile

To specify particular TCK version:

    mvn test -Dincontainer -Dcdi.tck.version=1.1.0.SP2

## Note

In order to run the TCK Test Suite in the container an Arquillian container adapter is required. See also Arqullian reference guide.

The Arquillian will also start and stop the application server automatically (provided a managed Arqullian container adapter is used).

Since Arquillian in-container tests are executed in a remote JVM, the results of the test must be communicated back to the runner over a container-supported protocol. The TCK utilizes servlet-based protocol (communication over HTTP).

## 7.4. Running the Tests In the Container - SE part

To execute full TCK testsuite you have to run tests within SE group as well. SE tests make use of Arquillian container SE. This way the tests are executed in a separate JVM instance with isolated and configurable classpath. The Arquillian container does not start CDI container in any way - this is still done directly in the tests using CDI SE bootstrap API and `javax.enterprise.inject.se.SeContainerInitializer`. In order to run SE TCK tests in RI, you need to execute "weld-se" Maven profile from the JBoss TCK runner POM file as follows:

    ---
    mvn test -Dincontainer=se
    ---

The profile needs to provide RI dependencies as well as Arquillian settings (`arquillian.xml`). These two need to be stored into a directory so that Arquillian container can then be instructed to pick them up. In RI, this orchestration is done using `maven-dependency-plugin` along with `maven-surefire-plugin`.

## 7.5. Dumping the Test Archives

As you have learned, when the test suite is executing using in-container mode, each test class is packaged as a deployable archive and deployed to the container. The test is then executed within the context of the deployed application. This leaves room for errors in packaging. When investigating a test failure, you may find it helpful to inspect the archive after it’s generated. The TCK (or Arquillian respectively) can accommodate this type of inspection by "dumping" the generated archive to disk.

The feature just described is activated in the Arquillian configuration file (Section 4.2, “Arquillian settings”). In order to export the test archive you’ll have to add the `deploymentExportPath` property element inside `engine` element and assign a relative or absolute directory where the test archive should be exported, e.g.:

                <engine>

                    <property name="deploymentExportPath">target/</property>

                </engine>

Arquillian will export the archive to that location for any test you run.

To enable the export for just a single test, use the VM argument `arquillian.deploymentExportPath`:

    -Darquillian.deploymentExportPath=target/deployments/

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