hi,
is maven picking up your testng.xml configuration file?
where are your test located (in which dir?)
here's my pom.xml
<project>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>ExpenseControl</groupId>
<artifactId>ejbs</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<version>1.0</version>
<name>enterprise java beans</name>
<parent>
<groupId>ExpenseControl</groupId>
<artifactId>project</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</parent>
<dependencies>
<!-- JBoss Microcontainer dependencies (for tests)-->
<dependency>
<groupId>microcontainer</groupId>
<artifactId>ehcache</artifactId>
<version>alpha6</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${basedir}\microcontainer\optional-lib\ehcache-
alpha6.jar</systemPath>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>microcontainer</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-all</artifactId>
<version>alpha6</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${basedir}\microcontainer\lib\hibernate-all-alpha6.jar
</systemPath>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>microcontainer</groupId>
<artifactId>jboss-ejb3-all</artifactId>
<version>alpha6</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${basedir}\microcontainer\lib\jboss-ejb3-all-alpha6.jar
</systemPath>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>microcontainer</groupId>
<artifactId>thirdparty-all</artifactId>
<version>alpha6</version>
<scope>system</scope>
<systemPath>${basedir}\microcontainer\lib\thirdparty-all-alpha6.jar
</systemPath>
</dependency>
<!-- end of jboss microcontainer dependencies -->
<dependency>
<groupId>geronimo-spec</groupId>
<artifactId>geronimo-spec-j2ee</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>myfaces</groupId>
<artifactId>myfaces-all</artifactId>
<version>1.1.1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jboss-seam</groupId>
<artifactId>jboss-seam-ui</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0CR3</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>jboss-seam</groupId>
<artifactId>jboss-seam</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0CR3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.testng</groupId>
<artifactId>testng</artifactId>
<version>4.7</version>
<scope>test</scope>
<classifier>jdk15</classifier>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>dbunit</groupId>
<artifactId>dbunit</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<encoding>iso-8859-1</encoding>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<!-- <version>2.2-SNAPSHOT</version>-->
<configuration>
<suiteXmlFiles>
<suiteXmlFile>src/test/resources/testng.xml</suiteXmlFile>
</suiteXmlFiles>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<echo message="--------Properties Configured
----------"/>
<echo message="------- deploy.dir=${deploy.directory}
"/>
<echo message="------- ear.name=${ear.name}"/>
<echo message="-------
project.parent.version=${project.parent.version}"/>
<echo message="------- project.version=${project.version}"/>
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<!--<reporting>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<forkMode>once</forkMode>
<childDelegation>false</childDelegation>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</reporting>-->
<!-- The following two sections should be unnecessary shortly.
surefire-2.2 is due for release yesterday. -->
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>apache.snapshots</id>
<url>http://cvs.apache.org/maven-snapshot-repository</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>apache.snapshots</id>
<url>http://cvs.apache.org/maven-snapshot-repository</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</project>
my tests are in the src/test/java directory
my testng.xml is in src/test/resources
HTH
marco