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 The following documents might be interesting
 
 *   [Building](building)
+*   [Testing changes locally](testing-changes-locally)
 *   [Release Plans](release-plans)
 *   [Release Guide](release-guide)
 *   [Design Documents](design-documents)
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 *   [Becoming a committer](https://infra.apache.org/new-committers-guide.html)
 *   [Benchmark Tests](benchmark-tests)
 *   [Building](building)
+*   [Testing your changes locally](testing-changes-locally)
 *   [Code Overview](code-overview)
 *   [Developer Guide](developer-guide)
     *   [Design Documents](design-documents)
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+---
+layout: default_md
+title: Testing changes locally 
+title-class: page-title-classic
+type: classic
+---
+
+[Developers](developers) > [Testing changes locally](testing-changes-locally)
+
+Testing changes locally
+-----------------------------
+
+### Broker
+After running existing or newly added unit tests, if you want to do integration testing on your change, you can [build](building) the repo locally to generate the release bundle and then unzip the bundle to test broker behaviour. 
+```
+# At root directory
+$ mvn -Dtest=false -DfailIfNoTests=false clean install 
+```
+If the build was successful. You will see a message similar to the one below
+```
+[INFO] Installing /Users/xxx/amzn/personal_workspace/activemq/assembly/target/apache-activemq-6.2.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip to /Users/xxx/.m2/repository/org/apache/activemq/apache-activemq/6.2.0-SNAPSHOT/apache-activemq-6.2.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip
+```
+Unzip that target and start the ActiveMQ broker which contains your change
+```
+$ cd /Users/xxx/.m2/repository/org/apache/activemq/apache-activemq/6.2.0-SNAPSHOT
+$ unzip apache-activemq-6.2.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip
+$ cd apache-activemq-6.2.0-SNAPSHOT
+$ ./bin/activemq console
+```
+
+### ActiveMQ client
+
+Testing the client library is a bit trickier because you will need a test client (that imports your newly built client library). There are many ways to do it, overall the idea is:
+
+- Build the activemq-client pakcage
+- Copy the output jar into your test client or local mvn repository
+- Run your test client
+
+You can take a look at this [sample test client](https://github.com/kenliao94/activemq-client-test) and follow its README.
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