Debugging tests of a Maven project in NetBeans

Posted by Lucio Benfante Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:30:00 GMT

Occasionally I experienced some problems in debugging test classes using NetBeans with Maven projects. Simply, the debugger started but didn’t attach to the running tests.

Eventually I discovered the reason!

I used to configure the surefire plugin with:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <skip>false</skip>
        <useFile>true</useFile>
        <forkMode>once</forkMode> <!-- always, once or never -->
        <!-- <reportFormat>plain</reportFormat> -->
        <argLine>-Xmx512M</argLine>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

The problem is the argLine parameter. It will override the parameters the Mevenide plugin will pass for debugging tests. So, I commented it in my configuration:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <skip>false</skip>
        <useFile>true</useFile>
        <forkMode>once</forkMode> <!-- always, once or never -->
        <!-- <reportFormat>plain</reportFormat> -->
        <!--argLine>-Xmx512M</argLine--> <!-- don't use if you want to debug tests in NetBeans -->
    </configuration>
</plugin>

...and now I can debug my tests!

Posted in Tips & Tricks, Programmazione | Tags debug, maven, netbeans, test | 5 comments

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tommyalf said 100 days later:

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gc said 463 days later:

Thanks. I was having the same problem, you’ve helped me much.

This seem to be corrected in Netbeans 6.7beta
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gc said 463 days later:

Thanks. I was having the same problem, you’ve helped me much.

This seem to be corrected in Netbeans 6.7beta
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