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

For me it was a missing executions section

            
                
                    
                        integration-test
                        verify
                    
                
            

The failsafe with TestNG documentation at https://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-failsafe-plugin/examples/testng.html had shown a pom without it, and it didn't work.

    [...]
      
        org.apache.maven.plugins
        maven-failsafe-plugin
        3.0.0-M3
        
          
            testng.xml
          
        
      
    [...]

Adding the missing executions section shown above solved the problem.