unable to run Maven projects from TestNG thru command line...! - maven

Question

i have configured my eclipse with maven and testNG, PF my pom.xml 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>
<parent>
<artifactId>iONAutomation</artifactId>
<groupId>com.iON.tcs</groupId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<groupId>com.iON.tcs</groupId>
<artifactId>common</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>common</name>
<description>maintains all common code</description>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>selenium-tests</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.12.4</version>
<configuration>
<suiteXmlFiles>
<suiteXmlFile>src/test/resources/testng.xml</suiteXmlFile>
</suiteXmlFiles>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.testng</groupId>
<artifactId>testng</artifactId>
<version>6.3.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
am runnong from the cmd prompt thu this dir: D:\EclipseWorkspace\iON27Feb2013\iONAutomation\common>
I tried usinng mvn test and mvn -Dtest=NewTest test commands, didnot succeed.
My cmd console displays:
D:\EclipseWorkspace\iON27Feb2013\iONAutomation\common>mvn test
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building common 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:resources (default-resources) # common ---
[debug] execute contextualize
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1252 actually) to copy filtered resources,
i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 0 resource
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:compile (default-compile) # common ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.5:testResources (default-testResources) # co
mmon ---
[debug] execute contextualize
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1252 actually) to copy filtered resources,
i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 0 resource
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:2.3.2:testCompile (default-testCompile) # commo
n ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test (default-test) # common ---
[INFO] Surefire report directory: D:\EclipseWorkspace\iON27Feb2013\iONAutomation
\common\target\surefire-reports
-------------------------------------------------------
T E S T S
-------------------------------------------------------
Results :
Tests run: 0, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 0.932s
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Feb 28 19:11:43 IST 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 4M/15M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Answer 1

If you have a profile defined, then afaik, you need to invoke that profile ...mvn test -Pselenium-tests. As such if there is no particular reason for u to use profiles, then you might just go without them, in which case mvn test should work just fine.

Answer 2

Did you try to put
<sourceDirectory>/home/{userName}/{projectLocation}/src/main/java/packageTest</sourceDirectory>
inside your build ?
I had the same problem and this line solved it.
You can also try to add a goal to your pom file
<execution>
<id>default-test</id>
<phase>test</phase>``
<goals>
<goal>test</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<skip>false</skip>
</configuration>
</execution>
Hope it will help you !