title: Opendaylight netconf-testtool build failed
body: <p>Hi I tried to clone the repository and build the source as mentioned in the opendaylight wiki page. But the build is failing.</p>
  
  <p>Link: <a href="https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/OpenDaylight_Controller:Netconf:Testtool#Building_testtool" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/OpenDaylight_Controller:Netconf:Testtool#Building_testtool</a></p>
  
  <p>The following are the steps I followed:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Check out latest netconf repository from <a href="https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/#/admin/projects/netconf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">git</a></li>
  <li>Dive into netconf/netconf/tools/netconf-testtool/ folder</li>
  <li>Build testtool using mvn clean install command</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>The build fails with the following error trace:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] Scanning for projects...
  [ERROR] [ERROR] Some problems were encountered while processing the POMs:
  [FATAL] Non-resolvable parent POM for org.opendaylight.netconf:netconf-parent:1.5.0-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact org.opendaylight.mdsal:binding-parent:pom:0.13.0-SNAPSHOT and 'parent.relativePath' points at no local POM @ org.opendaylight.netconf:netconf-parent:1.5.0-SNAPSHOT, /home/balakrishnan/netconf_simulator/netconf/netconf/netconf-parent/pom.xml, line 11, column 11
   @ 
  [ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -&gt; [Help 1]
  [ERROR]   
  [ERROR]   The project org.opendaylight.netconf:netconf-testtool:1.5.0-SNAPSHOT (/home/balakrishnan/netconf_simulator/netconf/netconf/tools/netconf-testtool/pom.xml) has 1 error
  [ERROR]     Non-resolvable parent POM for org.opendaylight.netconf:netconf-parent:1.5.0-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact org.opendaylight.mdsal:binding-parent:pom:0.13.0-SNAPSHOT and 'parent.relativePath' points at no local POM @ org.opendaylight.netconf:netconf-parent:1.5.0-SNAPSHOT, /home/balakrishnan/netconf_simulator/netconf/netconf/netconf-parent/pom.xml, line 11, column 11 -&gt; [Help 2]
  [ERROR] 
  [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
  [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
  [ERROR] 
  [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
  [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ProjectBuildingException
  [ERROR] [Help 2] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/UnresolvableModelException
  </code></pre>