how to run compile and packaging before test?

Hi

my unit test require I a *.tar.gz. The *.tar.gz needs to include the 3rd party dependencies and the projects jar file artifact.

I tried using an assembly and setting the phase, so it will run before the unit tests run, how ever my project artifact has not been packaged yet

Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Andy

$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.0.5 (r01de14724cdef164cd33c7c8c2fe155faf9602da; 2013-02-19 05:51:28-0800)

from my pom.xml

<plugin>
<!-- The assembly to builds the topology tarball we install on the Athena
platform http://joel-latino.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-create-zip-files-with-maven.html
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/plugin-info.html -->
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>createTarball-assembly</id>
<!-- we can not use package, local unit test will not run eclipse complains
about process-test-classes <phase>process-test-classes</phase> -->
<phase>process-test-classes</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
<inherited>false</inherited>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<descriptors>
<descriptor> src/createTarballAssembly.xml</descriptor>
</descriptors>
<finalName>${project.build.finalName}</finalName>
<appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
</configuration>
</plugin>

here is my assembly file

<assembly
xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.0.xsd">

<!-- ref: http://joel-latino.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-create-zip-files-with-maven.html
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/plugin-info.html -->

<id>createTarball-assembly</id>
<formats>
<format>tar.gz</format>
</formats>
<includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
<dependencySets>
<dependencySet>
<includes>
<include>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}</include>
<include>aid-athena-common</include>
</includes>
<useProjectArtifact>true</useProjectArtifact>
<unpack>false</unpack>
<scope>runtime</scope>
<outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
</dependencySet>
</dependencySets>
<fileSets>
<!--
<fileSet>
<directory>target/classes</directory>
<outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
<includes>
< ! - -
<include>vela.properties</include>
<include>application.properties</include>
<include>rspscheduler.properties</include>

</includes>
</fileSet>

<!--
<fileSet>
<directory>${project.build.directory}</directory>
<outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
<includes>
<include>${project.build.finalName}</include>
</includes>
</fileSet>

</fileSets>
</assembly>