Maven surefire plugin triggers the testsuite more than once

Question

I have two test-suites say A.xml and B.xml. Here's an example of one of them.

<!-- URL Details -->
<parameter name="applicationHostname" value="localhost" />
<parameter name="applicationProtocol" value="http" />
<parameter name="applicationPort" value="8080" />

<parameter name="testDelay" value="0" />

<test verbose="2" name="TestSuiteA" annotations="JDK"
    preserve-order="true">
    <parameter name="testDataSource" value="Data.json" />
    <classes>
        <class name="package.SuiteConfiguration" />
        <class
            name="package.functionalTestAppStart.AppStarter" />
    </classes>
</test>

Here AppStarter is springboot app which gets triggered.

Here's my corresponding snippet of POM.xml

    <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.19.1</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                    <id>IT</id>
                        <phase>test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>integration-test</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                <skip>false</skip>
                    <suiteXmlFiles>
                               <suiteXmlFile>src/test/resources/suites/FT_TEST_SUITE.xml</suiteXmlFile>
                    </suiteXmlFiles>
                </configuration>
                </execution>
                    <execution>
                    <id>verify</id>
                        <phase>verify</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>verify</goal>
                        </goals>
                </execution>
                </executions>
        </plugin>

Here FT_TEST_SUITE.xml is parent test suite which just triggers the other two test-suites.

    <suite-files>
      <suite-file path="TESTSUITE_A.xml" />
      <suite-file path="TESTSUITE_B.xml" />
    </suite-files>

When I build my maven project "mvn clean install", the testsuites gets triggered 3 times. How to solve this problem? Thanks!

Answer 1

I found the solution with little bit of change. In failsafe_version changing version to 2.13 and changing the phase to integration-test did the job. Here's my updated POM.xml snippet.

    <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.13</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                    <id>IT</id>
                        <phase>integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>integration-test</goal>
                        </goals>
                 <configuration>
            <suiteXmlFiles> 
        <suiteXmlFile>src/test/resources/suites/FT_TEST_SUITE.xml</suiteXmlFile>
            </suiteXmlFiles>
            </configuration>
                </execution>
                    <execution>
                    <id>verify</id>
                        <phase>verify</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>verify</goal>
                        </goals>
                </execution>
                </executions>
        </plugin> 

Thanks for all your replies!