A new system test plugin is being made available for running test
suites that should be run less frequently than with every commit, such
as tests that verify Spring Boot compatibility with external
projects. CI pipeline configuration for running system tests is also
provided.
The first system tests verify the behavior of the Spring Boot image
building plugins when building images using Paketo buildpacks.
Closes gh-25824
Previously, Spring Boot's modules published Gradle Module Metadata
(GMM) the declared a platform dependency on spring-boot-dependencies.
This provided versions for each module's own dependencies but also had
they unwanted side-effect of pulling in spring-boot-dependencies
constraints which would influence the version of other dependencies
declared in the same configuration. This was undesirable as users
should be able to opt in to this level of dependency management, either
by using the dependency management plugin or by using Gradle's built-in
support via a platform dependency on spring-boot-dependencies.
This commit reworks how Spring Boot's build uses
spring-boot-dependencies and spring-boot-parent to provide its own
dependency management. Configurations that aren't seen by consumers are
configured to extend a dependencyManagement configuration that has an
enforced platform dependency on spring-boot-parent. This enforces
spring-boot-parent's version constraints on Spring Boot's build without
making them visible to consumers. To ensure that the versions that
Spring Boot has been built against are visible to consumers, the
Maven publication that produces pom files and GMM for the published
modules is configured to use the resolved versions from the module's
runtime classpath.
Fixes gh-21911
Andy Wilkinson
Stephane Nicoll
Arun Suresh
Scott Frederick
Phillip Webb
Vitalii Mahas
dreis2211
Andy Wilkinson