Integration test launcher dependencies kill AEM instance

[ottonagy]

Environment

• AEM version : Adobe Experience Manager (6.2.0)
• Java version : 1.8.0_101
• Operating system : Windows 7

Steps to reproduce

• Start a fresh AEM 6.2 author instance by running java -jar cq-author-p4502.jar in a cmd shell
• Check out the latest master branch (at the time of writing https://github.com/Adobe-Marketing-Cloud/aem-sample-we-retail/commit/fc31e133e38fe3b8f70d6511c6b443b879a7a4a4)
• Launch the integration tests by executing mvn clean integration-test -PintegrationTests in a cmd shell
• Integration tests will fail (but this is not the main issue here)
• Restart your AEM instance

After the last step AEM fails to start normally as most of the bundles are unable to start.

Root cause The integration test launcher module defines and installs the following dependencies :

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
            <artifactId>httpclient-osgi</artifactId>
            <version>4.1.2</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
            <artifactId>httpcore-osgi</artifactId>
            <version>4.1.2</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

but these are already provided by AEM 6.2 OOTB but with different versions (4.3.4 and 4.3.2, respectively) so basically by launching the integration tests those bundles are downgraded (as AEM doesn't support multiple versions of the same dependency)

[ottonagy]

The relevant log records are issue-117-stderr.log.txt

[ottonagy]

I suppose this issue is present in the already released 1.0.0 version, too.

[bpauli]

@ottonagy Thanks for reporting this issue. We will have a look to it.

[bpauli]

The integration test launcher was removed in the latest release.