Jcstress maven test

Jcstress is a tool that can be used to find concurrency errors in Java data structures. It is important to say that jcstress tries to look for bugs in the code, but it does not prove that the code is correct. False negatives must be expected.

Jcstress is not designed to be executed in JUnit or any other testing framework. Instead, it has been designed to generate an uberjar that should be executed with java -jar.

Some people would like to enforce jcstress tests while the code is being build. For example, reyerizo/jcstress-gradle-plugin is a Gradle plugin that adds a task called jcstress which executes the tests. But there is a lack of Maven alternatives. Maven plugins may be created, but given that there are none, this project is a very simple (and maybe incorrect) way to run a jcstress tests in Maven.

This project is just a new Maven project created with

$ mvn archetype:generate \
 -DinteractiveMode=false \
 -DarchetypeGroupId=org.openjdk.jcstress \
 -DarchetypeArtifactId=jcstress-java-test-archetype \
 -DgroupId=org.sample \
 -DartifactId=test \
 -Dversion=1.0

Where [pom.xml] has been changed to use exec plugin to execute the jcstress uberjar:

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
                <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.0.0</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>exec</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
                <configuration>
                    <executable>java</executable>
                    <arguments>
                        <argument>-jar</argument>
                        <argument>../../jcstress.jar</argument>
                        <argument>-time</argument>
                        <argument>100</argument>
                    </arguments>
                    <workingDirectory>
                        target/reports/jcstress
                    </workingDirectory>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

Also, ConcurrencyTest has been changed to make it fail.

To run the test, simply run:

mvn verify

(Remember that verify is executed after package and before install)