What is the difference between the Maven Surefire and Maven Failsafe plugins?

Question

What is the difference between Maven Surefire and Maven Failsafe plugins?
I have searched all over web, but did not get the answer.

Answer 1

In my country its the second google result when searching for "maven failsafe maven surefire" to get to this FAQ: Difference between maven-failsafe-plugin and maven-surefire-plugin which states:

maven-surefire-plugin is designed for running unit tests and if any of the tests fail then it will fail the build immediately.

maven-failsafe-plugin is designed for running integration tests, and decouples failing the build if there are test failures from actually running the tests."