What are the benefits of Maven for Selenium testers?

Question

Maven

Good day, dear automators. We are planning a project with Java for Selenium. There is an option to take Maven as a collector. Can you please tell me if Maven gives a real advantage in automated testing projects? I searched the Internet for comparison of assemblers - I did not find a comparative assessment. Are there any advertising calls that Maven is all so integrated, platform-independent and other marketing tales.

Answer 1

"Whoa? How does (bleat) building a project relate to testing?"
Well, about 8 years ago, you could say so about Maven, that it is cool, etc. ...
Now the situation has changed a lot - Maven and Ant are just useless dinosaurs.
Use Gradle and be happy.
And Selenium is mainly used for front-end acceptance tests and writing bots.
It has an abstracted HTTP Api that can be bound to any platform and language.
So, for example, if you have an Angular application and want to test it - writing acceptance tests on Watij or Geb is very stupid, there is Protractor and webdriver.io for this - these are wrappers for WebDriver.js and selenium's http api.
If you have at least a hint of TDD / BDD there, then the person responsible for the front-end should write tests for himself in JS under selenium, and not pull the testers once again. Although it is useless to single out testers as a separate class of personnel in this case - the communication overhead is too high ...
Solve organizational problems and introduce third-party audit and quality control.
If you were told that maven is cool - you have a lot of amateurs there.