Binding to lifecycle in maven does not work on failsafe and integration-test

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When trying to get failsafe bound to the lifecycle, nothing is executed at all. I have read this guide and this related question, and according to this information, it should be possible to make maven execute an the goal integration-test of failsafe in the integration-test, when I specify it in the build/pluginManagement/plugins-section in the pom.xml like this:

              <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.17</version>
                <configuration>
                    <includes>
                        <include>**/*IT</include>
                    </includes>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>failsafe-integration-tests</id>
                        <phase>integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>integration-test</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                    <execution>
                        <id>failsafe-verify</id>
                        <phase>verify</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>verify</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

Unfortunately, this does not force maven to run failsafe:integration-test at all (neither with mvn integration-test nor mvn verify)

But if I try to use failsafe with the plugin-specification like this (from here with added configuration):

             <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.17</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>integration-test</id>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>integration-test</goal>
                            <goal>verify</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <phase>integration-test</phase>
                        <configuration>
                            <includes>
                                <include>**/*IT</include>
                            </includes>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>

At least maven compile failsafe:integration-test runs. But unfortunately, this does not call pre- and post-integration-test. I am struggeling for this for a while now, and have no clue - it should be bound as it is.

Does anybody know why this happens, or how I can fix it?

I would assume that you would have to use pre and post integration test yourself. Is there anything in those phases for failsafe. I believed it had only the test phase for execution and verify for collecting results and possibly break the build. — Niels Bech Nielsen

khmarbaise khmarbaise · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-21T14:45:37

The thing you did is to define it only in pluginManagement but you have to run it really like this. The definition in pluginManagement is good practice to pin the version of the plugin.

<project>
  [...]
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>integration-test</goal>
              <goal>verify</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  [...]
</project>

Apart from that it's not necessary to give include rules for the maven-failsafe-plugin cause it has already defaults defined so no need for that.

Binding to lifecycle in maven does not work on failsafe and integration-test

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