Run UI Automation Testing

[Fernando Nacpil]

The flow that I am thinking is that

1. Check out source code
2. Install dependencies  - bower
3. Run the server in the agent (mvn tomcut:run)
4. Run the Selenium test
5. Turn off the server

But looking at the mvn tomcut:run, the CI will not stop as it feels like it runs the server on it self and we cannot proceed with the step 4. 

What's the best practice here?

[ernestm]

I think setting maven.tomcat.fork to true lets you keep executing in maven after starting the tomcat - see https://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-trunk/tomcat7-maven-plugin/run-mojo.html

[VikasB]

I think mvn tomcat:run will wait for return code in order to pass or fail the build. You can try creating  a .bat and return some code. Even I faced this issue but couldn't work on it.

[Fernando Nacpil]

So based in this code, Does this mean it will just execute the mvn tomcat:run in the background and execute next the exit?

mvn tomcat:run
exit /b 0