How do I specify a separate maven goal for running (Cucumber) acceptance tests?

Question

I have the following project structure:

MyProject
   --src
   --test
      --acceptance
         --step_definitions
         --features
      --unit

Answer 1

The other answer suggested modifying your folder structure to have shared folder for integration and acceptance tests, but you can have the original folder structure as well. Also you mentioned in the comment you want to keep all three (including not-mentioned integration tests) separate, which is possible, though hackish.

Since you seem to have test/unit for unit tests and test/acceptance for acceptance test, I'm assuming test/integration for integration tests.

    
        acceptance-test
        
            
                
                    
                    maven-failsafe-plugin
                    2.12
                    
                        test/acceptance
                        
                            **/*Acceptance.java
                        
                        
                            **/*IT.java
                            **/*Test.java
                        
                    
                    
                        
                            
                                integration-test
                                verify
                            
                        
                    
                
            
        
    


    
        
            org.codehaus.mojo
            build-helper-maven-plugin
            1.9.1
            
                
                    add-test-source
                    generate-test-sources
                    
                        add-test-source
                    
                    
                        
                            test/unit
                            test/integration
                            test/acceptance
                        
                    
                
            
        
        
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-surefire-plugin
            2.12
            
                test/unit
            
        
        
            
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-failsafe-plugin
            2.19.1
            
                test/integration
            
            
            
                
                    
                        integration-test
                        verify
                    
                
            
        

Note though that separation only applies for sources: compiled files will all go to the same folder, and AFAIK that's something you can't change. This means you need to have naming strategy for your tests to separate them from each other.