How maven pom.xml identifies the testng test cases in a non-standard project structure?

Question

I am completely new to maven and testng. I am using maven as build tool, and testng as my testing framework. I am not following the standard maven project structure. Now I want

Answer 1

If you keep this in a single place you need to set the testClassesDirectory argument of the maven-surefire-plugin configuration:

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        org.apache.maven.plugins
        maven-surefire-plugin
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          path/to/compiled test classes
        
      
    
  
  [...]

All of this is well documented in the Maven Surefire Plugin Documentation