MavenExecutionPlan plan = LifecycleExecutionPlanCalculatorStub.getProjectAExecutionPlan();

        assertNull(plan.findLastInPhase("pacXkage"));
        // Beer comes straight after package in stub, much like real life.
        assertNotNull(plan.findLastInPhase(LifecycleExecutionPlanCalculatorStub.INITIALIZE.getPhase()));
    }

used to test the individual components in the lifecycle with data that has expected characteristics
and can be asserted as desired.

You can change/extend these stubs, and tests should not be breaking too much, since most tests
assert using expected values from the stubs. Normally, when you try to use data from the stubs that
have not been properly populated, you'll get a nullpointer in your test and you then have to

 * lifecycle at all, in which case we wouldn't be needing this class at all ( and
 * ProjectBuildList.getByTaskSegments). Or maybe they should be introduced in the calculation
 * of the execution plan instead, which seems much nicer.
 * </p>
 * <p>
 * Additionally this class contains a clone of the MavenSession, which is *only* needed
 * because it has as notion of a "current" project.
 * </p>

  All of these operations will produce their own unique errors in the absence of
  a coordinated offline strategy. In addition, efforts to unite these failing
  behaviors behind a consistent user interface is much, much more difficult if
  the system can't tell whether it has access to the network required by these
  operations.

  Offline mode really means anticipating a lack of network connectivity, and as

</dependencies>
    ]]></configuration>
    <description>
      <![CDATA[
      This is a set of Artifact instances resolved from the set of dependencies for
      the current project.

      NOTE: This will likely contain much more than the direct dependencies of the
      current POM, since Maven uses transitive, or chained, dependency resolution.
    ]]></description>
  </expression>
  <expression>
    <syntax>project.parentArtifact</syntax>

        // snapshot timestamp, or some other timestamp later encoded into the metadata.
        // TODO this needs to be repeated here so the merging doesn't interfere with the written metadata
        //  - we'd be much better having a pristine input, and an ongoing metadata for merging instead

        Map<ArtifactRepository, Metadata> previousMetadata = new HashMap<>();
        ArtifactRepository selected = null;

h3. Plugins need a specific metadata model

Each application will have its own model for plugins. Much of this model will be common across applications but there will always be issues specific to a particular applications’s plugins. Some of the issues that need to be taken into consideration:

* Plugin dependencies