How do I get my Maven Integration tests to run

Question

The Maven build lifecycle now includes the "integration-test" phase for running integration tests, which are run separately from the unit tests run during the "test" phase. It runs after "package", so if you run "mvn verify", "mvn install", or "mvn deploy", integration tests will be run along the way.

By default, integration-test runs test classes named **/IT*.java, **/*IT.java, and **/*ITCase.java, but this can be configured.

For details on how to wire this all up, see the Failsafe plugin, the Failsafe usage page (not correctly linked from the previous page as I write this), and also check out this Sonatype blog post.

You can set up Maven's Surefire to run unit tests and integration tests separately. In the standard unit test phase you run everything that does not pattern match an integration test. You then create a second test phase that runs just the integration tests.

Here is an example:

    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
      <configuration>
        <excludes>
          <exclude>**/*IntegrationTest.java</exclude>
        </excludes>
      </configuration>
      <executions>
        <execution>
          <id>integration-test</id>
          <goals>
            <goal>test</goal>
          </goals>
          <phase>integration-test</phase>
          <configuration>
            <excludes>
              <exclude>none</exclude>
            </excludes>
            <includes>
              <include>**/*IntegrationTest.java</include>
            </includes>
          </configuration>
        </execution>
      </executions>
    </plugin>

I have done EXACTLY what you want to do and it works great. Unit tests "*Tests" always run, and "*IntegrationTests" only run when you do a mvn verify or mvn install. Here it the snippet from my POM. serg10 almost had it right....but not quite.

  <plugin>
    <!-- Separates the unit tests from the integration tests. -->
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
       <!-- Skip the default running of this plug-in (or everything is run twice...see below) -->
       <skip>true</skip>
       <!-- Show 100% of the lines from the stack trace (doesn't work) -->
       <trimStackTrace>false</trimStackTrace>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
       <execution>
          <id>unit-tests</id>
          <phase>test</phase>
          <goals>
             <goal>test</goal>
          </goals>
          <configuration>
                <!-- Never skip running the tests when the test phase is invoked -->
                <skip>false</skip>
             <includes>
                   <!-- Include unit tests within integration-test phase. -->
                <include>**/*Tests.java</include>
             </includes>
             <excludes>
               <!-- Exclude integration tests within (unit) test phase. -->
                <exclude>**/*IntegrationTests.java</exclude>
            </excludes>
          </configuration>
       </execution>
       <execution>
          <id>integration-tests</id>
          <phase>integration-test</phase>
          <goals>
             <goal>test</goal>
          </goals>
          <configuration>
            <!-- Never skip running the tests when the integration-test phase is invoked -->
             <skip>false</skip>
             <includes>
               <!-- Include integration tests within integration-test phase. -->
               <include>**/*IntegrationTests.java</include>
             </includes>
          </configuration>
       </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>

Good luck!

You can split them very easily using JUnit categories and Maven.
This is shown very, very briefly below by splitting unit and integration tests.

Define A Marker Interface

The first step in grouping a test using categories is to create a marker interface.
This interface will be used to mark all of the tests that you want to be run as integration tests.

public interface IntegrationTest {}

Mark your test classes

Add the category annotation to the top of your test class. It takes the name of your new interface.

import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;

@Category(IntegrationTest.class)
public class ExampleIntegrationTest{

    @Test
    public void longRunningServiceTest() throws Exception {
    }

}

Configure Maven Unit Tests

The beauty of this solution is that nothing really changes for the unit test side of things.
We simply add some configuration to the maven surefire plugin to make it to ignore any integration tests.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.11</version>
    <configuration>
        <includes>
            <include>**/*.class</include>
        </includes>
        <excludedGroups>
            com.test.annotation.type.IntegrationTest
        </excludedGroups>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

When you do a mvn clean test, only your unmarked unit tests will run.

Configure Maven Integration Tests

Again the configuration for this is very simple.
We use the standard failsafe plugin and configure it to only run the integration tests.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.19.1</version>
    <configuration>
        <includes>
            <include>**/*.class</include>
        </includes>
        <groups>
            com.test.annotation.type.IntegrationTest
        </groups>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

The configuration uses a standard execution goal to run the failsafe plugin during the integration-test phase of the build.

You can now do a mvn clean install.
This time as well as the unit tests running, the integration tests are run during the integration-test phase.