how to make maven use test resources

Question

when I use the command: mvn test, maven uses the main resources instead of the test ones in src/test/resources.

How can i make maven use the test resources rather th

Answer 1

Can't you give it another name ?
The Loader doesn't know that your resource.xml is in src/main/resources or src/test/resources, it's only a path to look for. I think the problem it's not Maven, this is how the Loader should and it works. From Maven would you expect to discard all classes/resources from src/main/resources when doing the test phase ?

Answer 2

Please check your target/test-classes directory for resource.xml. Your file should be here. If you find this file, I think the same name is the problem. Try rename the file for example to test-resource.xml. If the file doesn't exists in the test-classes directory, you should configure resource management in the maven pom.xml. Use maven-resouce-plugin. Hope it helps.