Configuring maven-failsafe-plugin to find integration tests not in src/test/java

Question

My directory structure is like so:

• src/integrationTest/java
• src/test/java
• src/main/java

I a

Answer 1

By default failsafe is configured to only include IT*.java, *IT.java or *ITCase.java. While at the same time, only test sources from src/test/java are compiled. You need to modify both of these behaviors.

1. Use build-helper-maven-plugin to add src/integationTest/java as test source for maven-compiler-plugin to pick up automatically. (You've already done this in your last attempt.)

2. Direct maven-surefire-plugin to exclude your integration tests (see example below) or to include only non-integration tests (see default includes).

3. Direct maven-failsafe-plugin to only include your integration tests instead of default includes.

---

  maven-surefire-plugin
  2.17
  
    
      **/*Stuff.java
    
  


  maven-failsafe-plugin
  2.17
  
    
      
        integration-test
        verify
      
    
  
  
    
      **/*Stuff.java
    
  

In fact using testClassesDirectory might also work for limiting scope of each test plugin, but you would have to make changes to maven-compiler-plugin to output classes to different folders, perhaps splitting it's test-compile execution into two, so maybe it's not worth the effort.