Benefits of Maven FailSafe Plugin

Question

I read Maven Failsafe plugin is designed specifically to run integration tests. Currently I\'m working on a multi-module project and integration tests are in its own separate mo

Answer 1

Addressing your third question as it isn't really answered, imho.

Can I do my server startup, shut down, file unzipping etc. in the pre-integration-test, post-integration-test phases without writing a maven plugin?

Taken from this answer to "Maven Failsafe Plugin: how to use the pre- and post-integration-test phases"

It boils down to: pre-integration-test and post-integration-test do nothing per default. You can bind a plugin specific for your task to those phases. Finding a specific plugin depends on what you're trying to do.

Another important thing to point out is default naming conventions used by the maven-failsafe-plugin: It runs test-classes with names starting or ending with IT (as integration test class)