maven failsafe plugin - maven

Question

I am trying to run only selenium tests using mvn failsafe plugin. I created a separate profile to run only the selenium tests but mvn is not able to find them. my project structure looks like
moduleA
scr/main/...
src/test/integration/java/...
scr/test/unit/java/...
moduleB
scr/main/...
src/test/integration/java/...
scr/test/unit/java/...
moduleC (only for selenium tests)
scr/main/java/com/selenium/A.java
src/test/java/...
Since I have new directories for the unit and integration tests in moduleA and B. I have defined the following in pom.xml (listingB) to let Maven know about the additional test directories. So far so good but when I add selenium tests in moduleC and I want to run only selenium its not running selenium tests. I created a new profile (listingA) to run selenium tests. Any help is appreciated.
listingA:
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>selenium</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>verify</id>
<goals>
<goal>integration-test</goal>
<goal>verify</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<includes>
<include>**/selenium/*.java</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<skip>true</skip>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
listinB:
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>add-test-source</id>
<phase>generate-test-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>add-test-source</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<sources>
<source>${basedir}/src/test/unit/java</source>
<source>${basedir}/src/test/integration/java</source>
<source>${basedir}/src/test/common/java</source>
</sources>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>add-test-resource</id>
<phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>add-test-resource</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/src/test/integration/resources</directory>
<directory>${basedir}/src/test/unit/resources</directory>
<directory>${basedir}/src/test/common/resources</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>

Answer 1

The first thing which came into my mind is why you are separating the unit- and integration tests by using a different folder, cause in Maven the separation between unit- and integration tests is done by naming convention.
The unit tests have to be named like
**/Test*.java
**/*Test.java
**/*TestCase.java
The integration test have to be named like:
**/IT*.java
**/*IT.java
**/*ITCase.java
This means in other words you can put your integration tests and your unit tests into the same folder which is src/test/java without any problem. The execution of the integration tests is not influenced by this.
If you would call
mvn clean package
only the unit tests will be run. If you need to run the integration tests as well you can simply use:
mvn verify
If you wan't to skip the unit tests you can use the following:
mvn -DskipTests=true verify
For the separate selenium module which you have created the best solutin is to put the integration tests into the usual folder src/test/java with the appropriate naming convention.
The problem you might have is if your integration tests needed some special resources you might move those integration tests into the separate module with integration tests only.

Answer 2

If your Selenium tests are in the src/test/java folder, delete the <includes> parameter from the configuration of maven-failsafe-plugin in listingA
Name your Selenium test classes like:
**/IT*.java
**/*IT.java
**/*ITCase.java
(as khmarbaise has suggested)
Failsafe runs integration tests using Surefire, therefore don't name your Selenium test classes like:
**/Test*.java
**/*Test.java
**/*TestCase.java
because this will make them run in test fase and not in integration-test fase as you plan.
I have a configuration similar to yours and it works.