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The integration and system tests' source files are contained in bigtop/bigtop-tests/test-artifacts. The tests use the JUnit testing framework and are written in Java or Groovy.
Inside bigtop/bigtop-tests/test-artifacts, users can build the test jars. For example, if a user wants to build the hadoop test jars and store them in the local maven repository, the user can do the following:
user@host:~/bigtop/bigtop-tests/test-artifacts/hadoop$ mvn install -DskipTests
Test resources, such as data and scripts, are located in bigtop/bigtop-tests/test-artifacts/<project-name>/src/main/resources.
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