Mastering Selenium WebDriver 3.0 - Second Edition

Making it easy for developers to run tests

Ideally, we want our tests to run every time somebody pushes code to the central code repository; part of doing this is ensuring that it's very easy to run our tests. If somebody can just check out our code base and run one command and have all of the tests just work, it means they are far more likely to run them.

We are going to make this easy by using Apache Maven. To steal a quote from the Maven documentation:

"Maven is an attempt to apply patterns to a project's build infrastructure in order to promote comprehension and productivity by providing a clear path in the use of best practices."

Maven is a tool that can be used to build and manage Java projects (including downloading any dependencies ...