SBT Test-Dependencies in Multiprojects: Make the Test-Code Available to Dependent Projects

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Gamlor picture Gamlor · Nov 19, 2011 · Viewed 15.1k times · Source

I've a SBT multi-project where some projects have dependencies to each other. Like this:

 lazy val coreProject: Project = Project(
    id = "core-project",
    base = file("./core-project"),
    // other stuff
    ))

  lazy val extensions: Project = Project(
    id = "extensions",
    base = file("./extensions"),
    dependencies = Seq(coreProject)
  )

Now I have some test-code in the 'core' project in the test-folder. There are also stuff like mocks and test-utilities. Now I would like to use those test utilities in the tests of the extensions. For production code this works, since I've declared a dependency. However it seems that dependency doesn't hold for the tests. When I run the tests I get compilation error for missing classes. Those classes are from the test-code in the core-project.

How can I tell sbt that the dependency also should include the test-code for the test-scope? So that I can reuse my mocks in the test-code of the 'exension'-project?

Answer

retronym picture retronym · Nov 19, 2011

Like so:

dependencies = Seq(coreProject % "compile->compile;test->test")

This is discussed in the section "Per-configuration classpath dependencies" in then Getting-Started-Multi-Project guide.

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