Adapt plugin implementation for rapid testing without publishing locally

[thebhumilsoni]

💬 Context

Currently, in order to test changes to the test-collector-plugin, the plugin must be published to the local maven repository using ./gradlew publishToMavenLocal or reference the latest published snapshot. This is very inefficient, as the command must be performed in order to test even a minor modification. Since the CI platforms have no maven repository server where we may publish the SDK prior to building the project, the CI workflows will fail if the added dependency to access the plugin published in maven local is not commented out or deleted.

Also, unlike the instrumented-test-collector library, where the library module can be added as a project dependency, i.e. implementation(project("collector:instrumented-test-collector")), the plugin module cannot be directly referenced. Hence, the implementation of the plugin should be adapted in order to make it easily testable without publishing it locally.

📝 Notes

• Including test-collector-plugin as a part of the composite build could be the solution for this?

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