It is a library containing functionality and abstraction to work with servers (start/stop/kill/configuration) in a unified way. It also provides workspace management abstraction which is used to prepare the servers for further testing. It also contains common libraries such as file manipulation (copy, move, remove, unzip,..), web access and many more.

We use same coding standards like wildfly https://github.com/wildfly/wildfly-core/tree/master/ide-configs with these exceptions:

• indentation size is 2
• continuation indentation is 4
• maximum line length is 160 chars

Version numbering is done in accordance to http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html

Release is done using maven to internal JBoss QA maven repositories mvn clean deploy

Before releasing, don't forget to check, that integration tests are passing on all platforms, e.g. by checking CI job if it is set up.

Releasing is done using the maven release plugin to internal JBoss QA maven repositories. To perform the release, use the following commands in a sequence:

mvn release:prepare -Pcomplete -Darguments="-DskipTests"

mvn release:perform -Pcomplete -Darguments="-DskipTests"

These commands automatically change versions, tags, and push the changes to the jbossqe-eap/noe-core repository. Note that the commands exclude running tests; run the tests yourself before releasing.

The release:prepare command generates temporary files. If you need to re-generate the temporary files without pushing new tags and versions, run the following command:

mvn -DdryRun=true release:prepare -Pcomplete -Darguments="-DskipTests"

To successfully perform the release, you must set username and password in the settings.xml file for the jboss-qa-releases server.

mvn clean verify -Pcomplete where -Pcomplete stands for also building testsuite module

To run single test run mvn verify -Pcomplete -Dit.test=SomeTest

At this moment, Noe Core cannot be built with Java greater than 8. However, it is tested and used in testsuites with Java up to 11. We now support SERVER_JAVA_HOME, which means the testsuite runs with different Java than the server itself.

Simply export SERVER_JAVA_HOME to a JAVA_HOME that will be set for servers (all Tomcats are supported, some EAPs are supported). This enables you to test a server with various Javas while running the testsuite on JDK 11+.