Hi Everyone, The one could be controversial... ;-)
The failsafe-maven-plugin is a fork of the maven-surefire-plugin designed for running JUnit/TestNG/etc style *integration* tests while interacting nicely with the lifecycle phases around running integration tests. That is, it does not fail the build during the integration-test phase, but instead waits until the verify phase before failing the build, thus allowing the post-integration-test phase to execute. I considered going the patch to surefire route, but by having this as a separate plugin, running tests with debug options, etc is easier as the configuration properties are called failsafe.___ and not surefire.___. My intention is that the version number would match the surefire version number. The name was chosen for two reasons: 1. It's a synonym of surefire 2. It reflects it's function, i.e. when it fails it fails in a safe way. Did I mention that this vote could be controversial? The failsafe-maven-plugin is currently in the *sandbox*. This is the first step for a future 2.4.3-alpha-1 release http://mojo.codehaus.org/failsafe-maven-plugin Please vote for the *promotion* of failsafe-maven-plugin out of the *sandbox*: +1 [ move out] 0 [ ] -1 [stay in sandbox ] The vote is open for 72 hours. -Stephen
