Maven tests with Surefire / Failsafe / OpenClover

Too many articles about Surefire and Failsafe, and most people still don't know why Surefire and Failsafe are for and how to use it.

• Surefire is used for unit tests
• Failsafe is used for integration tests

This project is a clean example how to configure you project with Surefire, Failsafe and OpenClover with only necessary dependencies, and how to run your JUnit tests and generate a code coverage report.

Running unit tests with Surefire

mvn clean test

Running integration tests with Failsafe

Running and checking tests separately

mvn failsafe:integration-test
mvn failsafe:verify

Running in one command

mvn verify

Running unit and integration tests together

mvn verify -Dskip.surefire.test=false

Running with OpenClover (for code coverage report)

Running unit tests

mvn clean clover:setup test  

Running integration tests

mvn clover:setup failsafe:integration-test failsafe:verify

Generate code coverage

mvn clover:aggregate clover:save-history clover:clover

Running in one command

mvn clean clover:setup verify -Dskip.surefire.test=false clover:aggregate clover:save-history clover:clover

Code coverage report

The code coverage report will be generated inside ./target/site/clover/dashboard.html