[SLING-7298] Validation IT: Use slingstart-maven-plugin in favour of pax-exam

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Validation 1.0.0
• Fix Version/s: Validation Core 1.0.4
• Component/s: Validation
• Assignee: Konrad Windszus
• Reporter: Konrad Windszus
• Created: 09/Dec/17 13:40
• Updated: 26/Dec/17 13:11
• Resolved: 09/Dec/17 16:37

Description

Due to issues with pax-exam with the newest Oak 1.6.0 (described in https://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg72805.html) and also because leveraging pax-exam with Sling is complex (to get all necessary dependencies right) I propose to use the slingstart-maven-plugin together with a custom Sling Launchpad instead. The according model is derived from the default Sling 9 launchpad and only two additional bundles are added there.

In addition the deprecated testing.tools dependency should be removed.

Issue Links

• relates to: SLING-7334 slingstart-maven-plugin: DependencyLifecycleParticipant must only consider Maven modules leveraging the same version of slingstart-m-p
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2