ReXSL Maven Plugin

This plugin is helping you to test your ReXSL-powered web application and perform some pre-packaging changes to your web assets (like CSS/XSL stylesheets, JavaScript code, etc.)

Read more about its usage.

The workflow of the plugin is this:

1. Statically analyze the content of src/main/webapp and fail if any prohibited content found there, for example incorrectly formatted CSS stylesheet or web.xml file not compliant to its XSD schema.
2. Perform XSL transformations on all xml files found in src/test/rexsl/xml (using your XSL stylesheets attached to them) and validate that resulting HTML documents are compliant to the rules of W3C and your groovy files found in src/test/rexsl/xhtml.
3. Run all pre-start groovy scripts from src/test/rexsl/bootstrap from plugin class loader.
4. Start Java servlet container (Jetty) with your classes and resources, emulating its real deployment to a real container.
5. Run all startup data initializing groovy scripts from src/test/rexsl/setup, inside the container and in its class loader.
6. Run all groovy tests found in src/test/rexsl/scripts.
7. Shutdown the container and report success.

Of course, at any step build may fail.

Detailed list of all checks is here.

There are a number of cookbook advices, which will help:

• How to add application data before tests?
• How to pre-configure the application and mock resources?
• How to add extra functionality during tests?
• How to use Selenium in ReXSL testing?