How to run testNG tests using Maven POM file - maven

Question

I have a Selenium project, using Maven and TestNG.
I have tried several different methods of getting my tests to run with a Maven command (I'm using the sure fire plugin).
When I run Maven the tests do not run. There are no errors.
Has anyone got a good example or a tutorial that I could follow to get my test to run when I use mvn test?
Thanks in advance.
Here is the output:
C:\**************>mvn test
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Unnamed - **************:**************:jar:1.0
[INFO] task-segment: [test]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [resources:resources]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1252 actually) to copy filtered resources,
i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 4 resources
[INFO] [compiler:compile]
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] [resources:testResources]
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (Cp1252 actually) to copy filtered resources,
i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory C:\**************\src\test\res
ources
[INFO] [compiler:testCompile]
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] [surefire:test]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Oct 02 15:14:10 BST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 16M/38M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
And the surefire configuration from my POM file:
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<encoding>iso-8859-1</encoding>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.12.4</version>
<configuration>
<suiteXmlFiles>
<suiteXmlFile>src/main/test_suites/local/***_Test.xml</suiteXmlFile>
</suiteXmlFiles>
</configuration>
</plugin>

Answer 1

Take a look at this Maven Using TestNG site.
Basically all you have to do is adding a dependency to the TestNG.
<dependencies>
[...]
<dependency>
<groupId>org.testng</groupId>
<artifactId>testng</artifactId>
<version>6.3.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
[...]
</dependencies>
The default includes in maven-surefire-plugin are:
<includes>
<include>**/Test*.java</include>
<include>**/*Test.java</include>
<include>**/*TestCase.java</include>
</includes>
That means that if the name of your test classes does not match the above include patterns then maven-surefire-plugin will not find them and run them.
You can change/add files to include by adding these to the plugin configuration.