Maven is automatically skipping tests

Question

How come that Maven is skipping all of my tests by default?I have a pom.xml with few profiles and I am not able to run my tests through neither of them. One of my profiles looks like

<profile>
        <id>jsf-test</id>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.jboss.as</groupId>
                <artifactId>jboss-as-arquillian-container-remote</artifactId>
                <version>${jboss.version}</version>
                <scope>test</scope>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>com.jsf.tests</groupId>
                <artifactId>jsf-app</artifactId>
                <version>${jsf-app.version}</version>
                <type>war</type>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
        <build>
            <plugins>                
                <plugin>
                    <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.6</version>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <id>copy-jsf-app</id>
                            <phase>validate</phase>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>copy</goal>
                            </goals>
                            <configuration>
                                <artifactItems>
                                    <artifactItem>
                                        <groupId>com.jsf.tests</groupId>
                                        <artifactId>jsf-app</artifactId>
                                        <version>${jsf-app.version}</version>
                                        <type>war</type>
                                        <destFileName>jsfapp.war</destFileName>
                                        <outputDirectory>target</outputDirectory>
                                    </artifactItem>
                                </artifactItems>
                            </configuration>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                </plugin>

                <plugin>
                    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>${maven-surefire.version}</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <skipTests>false</skipTests> <!-- desperate trial -->
                        <properties>
                            <property>
                                <name>listener</name>
                                <value>${testng.listeners}</value>
                            </property>
                        </properties>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>
    </profile>

If I run mvn verify -Pjsf-test then the project is compiled, jsf-app artifact is correctly copied into target directory and tests are skipped. mvn verify -Dtest=TestCalculator has the same result. I am using Arquillian and TestNG to perform the actual tests but I am not sure if it matters for this question.

EDIT

Running in debug will give (the relevant part)

[DEBUG]   (s) reportFormat = brief
[DEBUG]   (s) reportsDirectory = /home/pmensik/Work/workspace/epp-test/cdi-arquillian-    test/target/surefire-reports
[DEBUG]   (f) reuseForks = true
[DEBUG]   (s) runOrder = filesystem
[DEBUG]   (s) skip = true
[DEBUG]   (s) skipTests = false
[DEBUG]   (s) systemPropertyVariables = {jsfPortlet=true}
[DEBUG]   (s) testClassesDirectory = /home/pmensik/Work/workspace/epp-test/cdi-arquillian-test/target/test-classes
[DEBUG]   (s) testFailureIgnore = false
[DEBUG]   (s) testNGArtifactName = org.testng:testng
[DEBUG]   (s) testSourceDirectory = /home/pmensik/Work/workspace/epp-test    /cdi-arquillian-test/src/test/java
[DEBUG]   (s) trimStackTrace = true
[DEBUG]   (s) useFile = true
[DEBUG]   (s) useManifestOnlyJar = true
[DEBUG]   (s) useSystemClassLoader = true
[DEBUG]   (s) useUnlimitedThreads = false
[DEBUG]   (s) workingDirectory = /home/pmensik/Work/workspace/epp-test/cdi-arquillian-test
[DEBUG]   (s) project = MavenProject: org.jboss.gatein.test:cdi-portlet-test:6.1-ER01 @ /home/pmensik/Work/workspace/epp-test/cdi-arquillian-test/pom.xml
[DEBUG]   (s) session = org.apache.maven.execution.MavenSession@3c3483ec
[DEBUG] -- end configuration --
[INFO] Tests are skipped.

My simplest test looks like this

public class Test {

    @Drone
    protected WebDriver driver;

    @Deployment(testable = false)
    public static WebArchive createTestArchive() {
        return ShrinkWrap.createFromZipFile(WebArchive.class, new File("target/CDIPortlet.war"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testCase{
        //...
    }

}

Answer 1

The debug output shows this:

[DEBUG]   (s) skip = true

which not only skips running the tests, it will also skip compiling them. Check the parent POM (directly referenced by this POM, also any corporate POMs or super POMs introduced by Arquillian) to see where this flag is being set, if you're curious.

The fix is to add

<skip>false</skip>

to the surefire plugin config in this module, or add

-Dmaven.test.skip=false

to your command line.

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