Java Projects - Second Edition

Adding JUnit as a dependency

Recall that we have a multi-module project, and the dependency versions are maintained in the parent POM in the dependencyManagement tag:

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        ...
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.12</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

The scope of the dependency is test, which means that this library is needed only to compile the test code and during the execution of the test. The JUnit library will not make its way to the final released product; there is no need for it. If you find the JUnit library in some deployed production Web Archive (WAR) or Enterprise Archive (EAR) files, suspect that somebody ...