Configuring maven-failsafe-plugin to find integration tests not in src/test/java

Question

My directory structure is like so:

• src/integrationTest/java
• src/test/java
• src/main/java

I a

Answer 1

By default failsafe is configured to only include IT*.java, *IT.java or *ITCase.java. While at the same time, only test sources from src/test/java are compiled. You need to modify both of these behaviors.

1. Use build-helper-maven-plugin to add src/integationTest/java as test source for maven-compiler-plugin to pick up automatically. (You've already done this in your last attempt.)

2. Direct maven-surefire-plugin to exclude your integration tests (see example below) or to include only non-integration tests (see default includes).

3. Direct maven-failsafe-plugin to only include your integration tests instead of default includes.

---

<plugin>
  <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.17</version>
  <configuration>
    <excludes>
      <exclude>**/*Stuff.java</exclude>
    </excludes>
  </configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
  <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.17</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <goals>
        <goal>integration-test</goal>
        <goal>verify</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
  <configuration>
    <includes>
      <include>**/*Stuff.java</include>
    </includes>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

In fact using testClassesDirectory might also work for limiting scope of each test plugin, but you would have to make changes to maven-compiler-plugin to output classes to different folders, perhaps splitting it's test-compile execution into two, so maybe it's not worth the effort.

Answer 2

Got working integration tests on Groovy residing in src/test/groovy with this configuration:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.0-M5</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>spock-integration-tests</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>integration-test</goal>
                <goal>verify</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <failIfNoTests>true</failIfNoTests>
                <testSourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/test/groovy</testSourceDirectory>
                <includes>
                    <include>**/*Specification</include>
                </includes>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Note that pattern in <include> doesn't contain file extension (**/*Specification.groovy doesn't work)