Hi all, I am wondering why this does not cause a cyclic dependency error. This is the build.gradle for project `web`:

dependencies {
    testImplementation project(':test')
}

This is the build.gradle for project `test`:

dependencies {
    api project(':web')
}

I assume it is because

test

is only called during runtime in

web

and at that point

test

has everything it needs from

web

to work?

first, main sources of

web

are built, as they have no dependencies then, main source of

test

are built, because

:web

dependency can be already satsified then, `web`’s test sources are built, because

:test

is now built too

Even though it is one project, you can have multiple sourcesets (

main

and

test

) which each have their separate classpaths: web.main: web.main test.main: test.main + web.main web.test: web.test + test.main + web.main Thus technically you have no circular dependency, although I personally have a check to prevent these kind of dependencies.

Thank you for your explanations!