failsafe plugin won't run on one project but will run on another — why?

Question

This is driving me insane. The Maven failsafe plugin will not run on my project. If I run mvn verify only surefire runs. If I type mvn failsafe:verify

Answer 1

Take a look at the failsafe docs for the test names failsafe expects by default:

  **/IT*.java
  **/*IT.java
  **/*ITCase.java

Are your tests named following one of these patterns? If not, try defining the element in the plugin configuration. Or change your test name(s) to fit the default pattern.

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Okay, now that we've verified the test class names - typically when I add executions to plugin config I do it something like this:

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-failsafe-plugin
    ${version.maven.failsafe.plugin}
    
    
    
        
            failsafe-integration-tests
            integration-test
            
                integration-test
            
        
        
            failsafe-verify
            verify
            
                verify
            
        
    

This explicitly binds the failsafe plugin goals you want to run to the correct phases of the build lifecycle. I believe the surefire plugin is bound to the test lifecycle phase by default (for a jar, war, & ejb anyway), but nothing is bound to integration-test or verify.