test-start.md

test-start

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Start a Liberty server in background. The server instance will be automatically created if it does not exist. test-start honors the skipTests, skipITs, and maven-test-skip properties. It also allows you to bypass automatically starting the server during the pre-integration-test phase with pom configuration or a Liberty-specific command line argument.

Additional Parameters

The following are the parameters supported by this goal in addition to the parameters inherited from the start goal, the common server parameters, and the common parameters.

Parameter	Description	Required
skipTestServer	Skip the start and stop of server when testing. The default value is false.	No

Example:

<project>
    ...
    <groupId>myGroup</groupId>
    <artifactId>myServer</artifactId>
    <!-- Create Liberty server assembly -->
    <packaging>liberty-assembly</packaging>
    ...
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <!-- Enable liberty-maven-plugin -->
            <plugin>
                <groupId>io.openliberty.tools</groupId>
                <artifactId>liberty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.9</version>
                <extensions>true</extensions>
                <configuration>
                    <skipTestServer>true</skipTestServer>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    ...
</project>