The answer is on the index page of the failsafe plugin [1]. "If you use the Surefire Plugin for running tests..."
/Anders [1] http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-failsafe-plugin/ On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Paul Benedict <pbened...@apache.org> wrote: > I have always used surefire for integration tests with a Maven profile (to > activate them on demand since they are time consuming). What benefit am I > missing not using failsafe? > > > Cheers, > Paul > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Oliver B. Fischer <mails...@swe-blog.net> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I see a lot of people using *Surefire for intergation tests instead of > > Failsafe*. I think the reason for this is that *Failsafe* is from my > > perspective is *not integrated* in Maven *as is possible*. > > > > While unittest (*Test.java) are executed if we place them in > > |src/test/java| for integrationtests we have to add > > > > |<build> > > <plugins> > > <plugin> > > <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> > > <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId> > > <executions> > > <execution> > > <phase>integration-test</phase> > > <goals> > > <goal>integration-test</goal> > > <goal>verify</goal> > > </goals> > > </execution> > > </executions> > > </plugin> > > </plugins> > > </build> > > | > > > > Why is is not possible to integrate Failsafe in the same convenient way > as > > Surefire. > > > > I prepared a small example project you can checkout via Git > > > > |git clone https://bitbucket.org/obfischer/bugreport-maven-failsafe.git > > | > > > > Integrating Failsafe in the same way as Surefire would be great for a lot > > of people I think. > > > > Oliver > > > > >
