[Maven-plugins-developer] Testing plugins

[andrew c. <an...@ac...>]

Hi,

I want to test a plugin.  A coworker said I should look at how m2 does CI with
plugins, but I have no idea how to do that.

More detail - we are using archetypes to generate code and documentation
templates for users (this is for the Mule ESB - if the user wants to write a new
transport they can first generate skeleton code and docs via the archetype).  We
are using our own plugin (an adapted bobber plugin) to do this, and the system
is getting sufficiently complex that I'd like to have regression tests.  I'd
like to be able to run the archetype for a variety of inputs and check the
generated files against some standard directories.

Does that make sense?  Seems like you (m2) may well be doing something similar,
but is it publicly visible?  If so, where?

Thanks,
Andrew