Maven Parent - child project issue - maven

Question

I have parent project - selenium and child project as project 1 , my intention is to have all the reusable classes in parent and test in child.When i try to run the test from child project i got the below error , could any one please help me."Failed to execute goal on project project1: Could not resolve dependencies for project com.aero:project1:pom:
1.0-SNAPSHOT: The following artifacts could not be resolved: com.automation:parentproject:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT".I tried mvn clean and mvn install at parent project first and child project then executed mvn surefire:test but got the above exception.
Note: When i first build the parent project it doesnot generated the .jar file in the .M2 path
pom.xmL
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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.automation</groupId>
<artifactId>parentproject</artifactId>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<modules>
<module>project1</module>
</modules>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>2.53.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-htmlunit-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.52.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.testng</groupId>
<artifactId>testng</artifactId>
<version>6.9.10</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>3.2.1.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Child pom:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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">
<parent>
<artifactId>selenium</artifactId>
<groupId>com.automation</groupId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<artifactId>project1</artifactId>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.19.1</version>
<configuration>
<suiteXmlFiles>
<suiteXmlFile>testng.xml</suiteXmlFile>
</suiteXmlFiles>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.automation</groupId>
<artifactId>parentproject</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>

Answer 1

1- you child pom referencing the wrong parent artifact.
2- direct dependency to "parentproject" should be removed, since its parent and not a dependency.
Parent:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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.automation</groupId>
<artifactId>parentproject</artifactId>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.7</source>
<target>1.7</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<modules>
<module>project1</module>
</modules>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>2.53.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency><--!You are not using the Java bindings (i.e. Python, C#, or Ruby) and would like to use HtmlUnit Driver-->
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-htmlunit-driver</artifactId>
<version>2.52.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.testng</groupId>
<artifactId>testng</artifactId>
<version>6.9.10</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>3.2.1.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Child:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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">
<parent>
<artifactId>parentproject</artifactId>
<groupId>com.automation</groupId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<artifactId>project1</artifactId>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.19.1</version>
<configuration>
<suiteXmlFiles>
<suiteXmlFile>testng.xml</suiteXmlFile>
</suiteXmlFiles>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
...
</dependency>
</dependencies>
hope this helps