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		wtetzner on Aug 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dylan: the harsh realities of the market No, the tests are run as part of the deploy. So before deploying a library, if the tests don't pass, the deploy fails. However, the artifact that actually gets deployed is a .jar file containing .class files. Users of libraries don't rebuild the libraries.

lmm on Aug 27, 2014 | [–]

Just to clarify, "deploy" in this sense means "upload to your organization's maven repository (or maven central)".

Diederich on Aug 27, 2014 | [–]

Ok cool, I understand.

So would you guess there'd be wide-spread 'deploy-time' test coverage across the Java ecosystem?

Thanks again!

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