Order of Execution For Classes Included In A Surefire Plugin Execution

[Josephson, William (APG)]

I am using Maven 2.1.0, and the surefire plugin to run integration tests.

I have the following execution element within my pom:

                    <execution>
                        <id>first</id>
                        <phase>integration-test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>test</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <includes>
                                <include>**\SAM.java</include>
                                <include>**\QA3.java</include>
                                <include>**\cleanupQA3.java</include>
                            </includes>
                            <skip>false</skip>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>

I would expect that the tests within class SAM would be executed first, 
followed by the tests in class QA3 etc.

But instead the tests in class QA3 are performed first.

Shouldn't the tests be performed at least in the order that the classes are 
declared?

Thanks,

Bill Josephson
Cengage Learning