Maven command mvn clean verify does not activate Failsafe to run integration-tests

Question

I'm trying to use the Maven plugin Failsafe to run my integration tests that are in the src/it/java directory. I was using the build-helper plugin to get my integration test resources

I setup my failsafe plugin like...

                 <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.22.0</version>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>integration-test</goal>
                                <goal>verify</goal>
                            </goals>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>

                    <configuration>
                        <printSummary>true</printSummary>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>

With my build-helper plugin setup like...

              <plugin>                                                             
                    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>                             
                    <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>               
                    <executions>                                                     
                        <execution>                                                  
                            <id>add-source</id>                                      
                            <phase>generate-sources</phase>                          
                            <goals>                                                  
                                <goal>add-test-source</goal>                         
                            </goals>                                                 
                            <configuration>                                          
                                <sources>                                            
                                    <source>
                                        <directory>src/it/java</directory>
                                    </source>                     
                                </sources>                                           
                            </configuration>                                         
                        </execution>                                                 
                        <execution>                                                  
                            <id>add-resource</id>                                    
                            <phase>generate-sources</phase>                          
                            <goals>                                                  
                                <goal>add-test-resource</goal>                       
                            </goals>                                                 
                            <configuration>                                          
                                <resources>                                          
                                    <resource>                                       
                                        <directory>src/it/resources</directory>      
                                    </resource>                                      
                                </resources>                                         
                            </configuration>                                         
                        </execution>                                                 
                    </executions>                                                    
                </plugin>

I also have Surefire plugin to run my unit tests...

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.22.0</version>
        </plugin>

When I do mvn clean verify, only the unit tests run with surefire and failsafe doesn't run, when I try mvn failsafe:verify no tests run, when I try mvn build-helper:add-test-sources failsafe:verify, it throws an error that it cannot find the test sources.

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:build-helper-maven-plugin:3.0.0:add-test-source (default-cli) on project stkweb: The parameters 'sources' for goal org.codehaus.mojo:build-helper-maven-plugin:3.0.0:add-test-source are missing or invalid -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginParameterException

Right now if I change the configuration around with surefire slightly and put my integration tests in the src/test/java folder, it can run them fine. Just we want them in a separate directory for design reasons.

Carson Carson · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-28T17:08:20

The issue came down to using the <pluginManagement> tag.

<build>
  <pluginManagement>
    <plugins>
    </plugins>
  </pluginManagement>
</build>

When I removed the pluginManagement tag, it started running FailSafe.

<build>
  <plugins>
  </plugins>
</build>

This also fixed an issue we had with Jacoco as well, before we just had to call Jacoco directly.

Maven command mvn clean verify does not activate Failsafe to run integration-tests

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