[xwiki-devs] [Brainstorming] Implementing multi-environment tests - Take 2

Hi devs, I wanted to give you some info on what I’m doing for implementing multi environment testing on XWiki. Initially I thought about this architecture (let’s call it the "running maven inside docker” strategy): http://massol.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/DockerJenkinsConfigurationTes… However after more thinking, I think it’s not the best solution. I’m now exploring the “‘running docker inside maven” strategy which works as follows: The generation of the docker image + the start/stop of the docker containers is done by the maven build itself. This has the following advantages: * It’s not dependent on the CI system used * It allows the build to be reproduced locally on dev machines (only prerequisite is to have docker installed - note that right now the prerequisite is to have FF installed locally and we would swap this req. in favor of docker) * We’ll generate the official xwiki docker images as part of our build and not anymore as some external build/steps to execute * The build will be done fully with Maven (no more gradle) FYI, the plugin I’m exploring for this is the fabric8.io one: https://dmp.fabric8.io/#introduction I’ve started the work locally and I’ll commit once I have something ready enough. Let me know if you have some opinion or questions about this. Thanks -Vincent