Cyclic maven dependency with test scope

Question

We have ProjectB (only the main ones, not the tests) depend on ProjectA. The ProjectA test (non-core) depends on ProjectB. We have maven to create two separate artifacts (main and test jars) for each project. So there is no circular dependency here, but maven complains about circular dependence. I am wondering if there is a way to say in maven that this is really not a circular dependency.

In ProjectA, we have a ProjectB dependency section with a scope of “test”, since only ProjectA tests depend on ProjectB.

Answer 1

Maven builds modules as a whole, so you cannot:

Building Project A (main) Building Project B (main) Building Project A (test) Building Project B (test) 

You can either group your code in one project, or create a third project that will have all the common code for projects A and B.