Question

I’m having some issues running my unit tests when my pom is set to packaging type “pom”. At first, it was saying no goals needed for this project, so I added the maven-surefire-plugin to my pom.xml to bind the test phase to the maven-surefire-plugin test goal.

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.9</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>test</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>test</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin> 

Now the surefire plugin is getting executed, but it says there are no tests to run. If I change the packaging type to jar and run mvn test then it picks up my tests files.

When I run mvn test -X it says “testSourceDirectory = C:\dev\dsl\src\test\java”, which is the correct location. Is the test location different for the packaging type “pom” than for “jar”? I tried adding

            <configuration>
                <testSourceDirectory>src/test/java</testSourceDirectory>
            </configuration>

to the surefire plugin, but it didn’t help at all.

Answer 1

As commented by Dave, if you are using pom packaging, it only executes the following lifecycle goals. Refer to this related maven documentation.

• package
• install
• deploy

If you need it to run any other goal, you would need to explicitly specify it. For instance,

mvn clean compiler:testCompile surefire:test