Parallel execution with maven-surefire-plugin is throwing PluginResolutionException - maven

Question

I am trying to execute my feature files via TestRunner.java files (by mentioning them in pom.xml) , in parallel using maven-surefire-plugin, for which i have set up pom.xml as below, but when i run pom.xml as maven test, its throwing PluginResolutionException when the version is 3.0.0-M3, when i have update the version to 2.19.1, the maven test is not running my feature files but the build is shown as successful
I have tried with different versions but not worked
Also I have tried replacing the configuration part with below changes
still my feature files are not executed but the build is
successful
<configuration>
<forkCount>3</forkCount>
<reuseForks>true</reuseForks>
<!--
<parallel>classes</parallel>
<forkMode>perthread</forkMode>
<threadCount>3</threadCount>
-->
<argLine>-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m</argLine>
<includes>
<include>**/*TestRunner.java</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
PS: After reading the below artical
https://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/examples/junit.html#Running_tests_in_parallel
I understand that there is link between the Junit version and surefireflugin i use in my project, bow one thing is for sure, the correct combination of Junit and maven-surefire-plugin is very much necessary, i have tried with below combinations
JUnit 4.7
plugin 3.0.0-M3
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0-M3</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.surefire</groupId>
<artifactId>surefire-junit47</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0-M3</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
JUnit 4.12
plugin 2.20
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.20</version>
<configuration>
<parallel>classes</parallel>
<threadCount>3</threadCount>
<argLine>-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m</argLine>
<includes>
<include>**/*TestRunner.java</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
but its not helpful, I suppose i am doing mistake in choosing this versions and the config of plugin with proper parameters, please help me
My complete pom is as below
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.practise.raja</groupId>
<artifactId>SeleniumConcepts</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
<version>4.7.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-picocontainer</artifactId>
<version>4.7.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>3.5.3</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
<fork>true</fork>
<executable>C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_211\bin\javac</executable>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0-M3</version>
<configuration>
<parallel>classes</parallel>
<forkMode>perthread</forkMode>
<threadCount>3</threadCount>
<argLine>-Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m</argLine>
<includes>
<include>**/*TestRunner.java</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Expected:
My feature files should run in parallel
Actual:
My feature files are not executed
After changing the dependencies and plugin as suggested by sureshmani, this is how it looks

Answer 1

Finally i am able to solve this, to my initial pom, have started doing below changes. Which ran my feature files in parallel
Change 1: I happen to add the dependency for cucumber-jvm-parallel-plugin along with plugin ,so i have deleted the plugin
Change 2: I have realized that the cucumber-jvm-parallel-plugin is not able to recognize the feature files when I have them placed src/main/java , some of the posts said i have to move all feature files to src/main/resources/feature , where features is package
Change 3: I have realized that cucumber-jvm-parallel-plugin is not able to recognize the resources like step def's and drivers etc, so i have used build-helper-maven-plugin where i have declared the resources as below
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>add-source</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>add-source</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<sources>
<source>src/main/java/</source>
<source>src/main/resources/</source>
<source>features</source>
</sources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Change 4: cucumber-jvm-parallel-plugin in the maven life cycle in my IDE, because for some reason maven is not able to consider this plugin in it execution
Eclipse --> Windoes --> Preferences --> Maven->LifeCycleMappings-> copy paste below code
<pluginExecution>
<pluginExecutionFilter>
<groupId>com.github.temyers</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-jvm-parallel-plugin</artifactId>
<goals>
<goal>generateRunners</goal>
</goals>
<versionRange>[4.2.0,)</versionRange>
</pluginExecutionFilter>
<action>
<ignore/>
</action>
</pluginExecution>
Then , click on "Reload workspace lifecycle mapping metadata" button in Preference
Maven modal
My final pom looks like this
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.practise.raja</groupId>
<artifactId>JUnitCucumberParallelExecutionPractise</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>JUnitCucumberParallelExecutionPractise</name>
<description>JUnitCucumberParallelExecutionPractise</description>
<dependencies>
<!-- <dependency>
<groupId>com.github.temyers</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-jvm-parallel-plugin</artifactId>
<version>5.0.0</version>
</dependency>
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.12</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
<version>4.7.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-picocontainer</artifactId>
<version>4.7.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>3.5.3</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<properties>
<src.main.java>src/main/java</src.main.java>
</properties>
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>${src.main.java}</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>add-source</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>add-source</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<sources>
<source>src/main/java/</source>
<source>src/main/resources/</source>
<source>features</source>
</sources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
<fork>true</fork>
<executable>C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.8.0_211\bin\javac</executable>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.temyers</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-jvm-parallel-plugin</artifactId>
<version> 4.2.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>generateRunners</id>
<phase>generate-test-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>generateRunners</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<featuresDirectory>src/main/resources/features</featuresDirectory>
<glue>
<package>com.qa.stepdef</package>
</glue>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/generated-test-
sources/cucumber</outputDirectory>
<cucumberOutputDir>${project.build.directory}</cucumberOutputDir>
<format> json </format>
<strict>true</strict>
<monochrome>false</monochrome>
<useTestNG>false</useTestNG>
<namingScheme>simple</namingScheme>
<namingPattern>Parallel{c}IT</namingPattern>
<parallelScheme>FEATURE</parallelScheme>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<!-- Specify a custom template for the generated sources (this is a path
relative to the project base directory) -->
<!-- <customVmTemplate>src/test/resources/custom-runner-template.java.vm
</customVmTemplate> -->
<!-- Specify a custom package name for generated sources. Default is no
package. -->
<!--<packageName></packageName> <plugins> <plugin> <name>json</name>
</plugin>
<plugin> <name>html</name> </plugin> <plugin> <name>pretty</name> </plugin>
</plugins> -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.20</version>
<configuration>
<forkCount>3</forkCount>
<reuseForks>true</reuseForks>
<includes>
<include>**/*IT.class</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Even after these changes, an error started showing at <execution> in pom, it says
Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle configuration: com.github.temyers:cucumber-
jvm-parallel-plugin:4.2.0:generateRunners (execution: generateRunners, phase:
generate-
But, its fine, i am able to run the feature files in parallel even with this above
error
test-sources)