What is the difference between the Maven Surefire and Maven Failsafe plugins?

Question

What is the difference between Maven Surefire and Maven Failsafe plugins?
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Answer 1

From https://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-failsafe-plugin/, I would say that the difference between Surefire and Failsafe is the way they fail:

If you use the Surefire Plugin for running tests, then when you have a test failure, the build will stop at the integration-test phase and your integration test environment will not have been torn down correctly.

The Failsafe Plugin is used during the integration-test and verify phases of the build lifecycle to execute the integration tests of an application. The Failsafe Plugin will not fail the build during the integration-test phase, thus enabling the post-integration-test phase to execute.