Run Acceptance tests as a separate Gradle task

Question

I am trying to configure Gradle with Kotlin DSL for my project. It consists of two modules. Module A is a simple Java 11 application. Module B cotains the acceptance tests written in Kotlin using Spek.

I would like to configure gradle so that gradle test does not run the acceptance tests and these tests are run only with task gradle acceptanceTest. I tried configuration below with other variations of filters, includes and excludes but with no luck. What am I missing?

tasks.withType<Test> {
    println("always printed: configuration phase test")

    useJUnitPlatform()

    filter {
        exclude("acceptance.*")
    }

    doLast {
        println("only printed if executed: execution phase test")
    }

}

val acceptanceTest: Task by tasks.creating(Test::class) {
    println("always printed: configuration phase ac")

    useJUnitPlatform {
        includeEngines("spek2")
    }

    filter {
        include("acceptance.*")
    }

    doLast {
        println("only printed if executed: execution phase ac")
    }
}

Answer 1

Filter was unnecessary. I just had the acceptanceTest task in the wrong place... After moving to the acceptance module it works as expected.