[Bug]: JVM unit tests are not executed on CI

[SimonMarquis]

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What happened?

Since the recent merge of this PR

• Prep work for JVM alternatives to modules/plugins #923

, the :core:common module is now a pure JVM module.

Unfortunately, the CI currently only runs Android tests:

nowinandroid/.github/workflows/Build.yaml

Line 106 in 50b13ec

run: ./gradlew testDemoDebug :lint:test

This also brought up this issue with missing test dependencies that were not visible on CI builds:

• [Bug]: Build Broken #1544

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[JoseAlcerreca]

How do you suggest we run all the JVM tests? I wouldn't want to specify every JVM module in the command.

[SimonMarquis]

A solution to this could be to do something similar to slackhq/slack-gradle-plugin's UnitTest.kt that creates a global ciUnitTest task that executed the JVM default test tasks as well as the chosen test${variant}UnitTest Android test task.
This worked for us with an even simpler setup on adevinta/spark-android.

[alexvanyo]

I would prefer switching over to a built-in umbrella task like check if we can, as that would avoid other cases like this in the future where there's a new type of check that we forget to add to CI.

If check runs too much, maybe we can look into something like switching to single-variant Android modules.

[Jaehwa-Noh]

What about add task with dependsOn at JVM module's gradle?
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/controlling_task_execution.html#sec:adding_dependencies_to_tasks

If the CI merely check demoDebugTest, you can make dependency with that.

[SimonMarquis]

I would prefer switching over to a built-in umbrella task like check if we can, as that would avoid other cases like this in the future where there's a new type of check that we forget to add to CI.

I think this is a bad idea for this type of project. We have a wide variety of "checks" in Android projects: unit tests, instrumented tests, screenshot tests, lints checks, etc.
Having a single "umbrella" for running all tests might seem a good idea, but in practice, we will never use it. Even the CI is already splitted in "logical" groups of checks. For memory, performance, parallelization and even clarity reasons.
That is why I proposed we follow the solution to group similar checks into distinct umbrellas. ciUnitTests, ciAndroidTests, ciLint, etc.