maven - Is isolation of failsafe and surefire runs from each other using a skip approach possible? -

the value of property skipits when overridden on command line appears ignored maven if used in conjunction -dit.test=full.classname. specified failsafe test not run (case one).

as opposed specifiing skipits without it.test switch leads running of existing failsafe tests (case two).

background: trying isolate surefire tests failsafe tests runs namely either running both types of them or 1 of each only. maven calls are:

mvn -pintegration -dskiptests=true -dskipits=false -dit.test=full.classname verify 

in first case and:

mvn -pintegration -dskiptests=true -dskipits=false verify 

in second.

the relevant configuration (pom.xml, snippets only) being:

<properties>     <skiptests>false</skiptests>     <skipits>false</skipits> </properties> 

(those defaults) and

<profiles>     <profile>         <id>integration</id>         <build>             <plugins>                 <plugin>                     <artifactid>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactid>                     <executions>                         <execution>                             <id>custom<id>                             <goals>                                 <goal>integration-test</goal>                                 <goal>verify</goal>                             </goals>                             <configuration>                                 <skiptests>${skipits}</skiptests>                                 <skip>${skipits}</skip>                             </configuration>                         </execution>                     </executions>                 </plugin>             </plugins>         </build>     </profile> </profiles> 

did observe or have found better working approach?

by default, surefire plugins runs during test phase , configure failsafe plugin run during integration-test , verify phase this:

<plugin>     <groupid>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupid>     <artifactid>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactid>     <version>2.18.1</version>     <executions>         <execution>             <goals>                 <goal>integration-test</goal>                 <goal>verify</goal>             </goals>         </execution>     </executions> </plugin> 

to run surefire tests only, use

mvn clean test 

to run both surefire , failsafe tests, use

mvn clean verify 

you can skip plugin using <skip> configuration option. if configure surefire plugin this:

<plugin>     <groupid>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupid>     <artifactid>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactid>     <version>2.18.1</version>     <configuration>         <skip>${skip.surefire}</skip>     </configuration> </plugin> 

you can run failsafe tests calling

mvn clean verify -dskip.surefire=true