maven pom - define a profile to customize plugin configuration - maven

Question

I have the following plugin in pom:
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.klieber</groupId>
<artifactId>phantomjs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<version>${phantomjs.version}</version>
<checkSystemPath>false</checkSystemPath>
<skip>${skipTests}</skip>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>install</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
I'd like to define a new profile to customize the plugin configuration:
<profile>
<id>enduserTest</id>
<properties>
<tomcat.version>8.0.39</tomcat.version>
<skipTests>true</skipTests>
</properties>
<build>
<defaultGoal>clean verify cargo:run</defaultGoal>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.klieber</groupId>
<artifactId>phantomjs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<version>${phantomjs.version}</version>
<checkSystemPath>false</checkSystemPath>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>install</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Where the only difference is that <skip>${skipTests}</skip>
line.
Now I'd like to run mvn -PenduserTest but the configuration doesn't get overriden.
Any advice? is there a better solution to do this? is it the correct strategy?

Answer 1

If the desired behavior is that tests get skipped when running the profile, so your logic is not wrong. to verify i test this code and this is work as expected (it skip tests with -PenduserTest) :
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.klieber</groupId>
<artifactId>phantomjs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.7</version>
<configuration>
<version>2.1.1</version>
<checkSystemPath>false</checkSystemPath>
<skip>${skipTests}</skip>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>install</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.3</version>
<configuration>
<source />
<target />
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>enduserTest</id>
<properties>
<tomcat.version>8.0.39</tomcat.version>
<skipTests>true</skipTests>
</properties>
<build>
<defaultGoal>clean verify cargo:run</defaultGoal>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.klieber</groupId>
<artifactId>phantomjs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.7</version>
<configuration>
<version>0.7</version>
<checkSystemPath>false</checkSystemPath>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>install</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
</project>