Maven fail-safe not executing tests

Question

I\'ve combed StackOverflow and many other sites, have found many other related posts and have followed all said suggestions, but in the end, failsafe is skipping my

Answer 1

I also had a similar problem but needed the packaging element to be "pom". Make sure your test source files are being compiled and added to the .../target/test-classes folder using the maven-compiler-plugin:

       
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-compiler-plugin
            ${maven.compiler.version}
            
                
                    test-compile
                    
                        testCompile