Why don't my integration tests run while invoking the "mvn test" command?

Question

Currently my integration tests only run when I run mvn install. I would like to have them run when I do mvn test.

My <pluginManagement> section contains:

<pluginManagement>
    <plugins>
        ...
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.18.1</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>integration-test</id>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>integration-test</goal>
                        <goal>verify</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
    ...
</pluginManagement>

How can I make the integration tests run when I give only the goal test?

Answer 1

Actually there is special phases for running integration tests:

• pre-integration-test - configure test environment.
• integration-test - run the tests.
• post-integration-test - stop integration test environment.
• verify - check the results.

They run sequentially, so if you call

mvn integration-test

and it fails, post-integration-test phase won't be invoked.

But if you want to call it within the "test" phase, just move the tests to the appropriate phase:

    <plugins>
        ...
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.18.1</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>integration-test</id>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>integration-test</goal>
                        <goal>verify</goal>
                    </goals>
                <phase>test</phase>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>