使用 maven-failsafe-plugin 仅执行部分集成测试子集

Question

We have a set of integration tests, which all end with IT . Out of those, there is some specific subset, which we would like to execute separately. Let's say their names end with SpecialIT . So what we want to achieve is two configurations of the failsafe plugin:

• To execute all tests, ending with IT , but not with SpecialIT -> this is easy. Just normal inclusion and exclusion by those names.
• To execute all tests, ending with SpecialIT , but not all others ...IT .

I thought it would be natural to create some dedicated profile and use a separate failsafe configuration with a negative lookbehind regex for that, so ended up with this configuration (had to use < instead of < , as that one is not allowed there):

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <excludes>
            <exclude>%regex[.*(?&lt;!Special)IT.*]</exclude>
        </excludes>
        <includes>
            <include>**/*SpecialIT.*</include>
        </includes>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

But when I try to run this - I'm getting the following error:

Exclamation mark not expected in 'exclusion': %regex[.*(?<!Special)IT.*]

Reading the documentation of the failsafe plugin - I see this:

The syntax in parameter excludes and excludesFile should not use (!).

So the question is: is there any other way to achieve this, without, let's say, renaming all our integration tests into ...StandardIT and ...SpecialIT ?

I was thinking in the direction of tags, test suit names or smth., but in our project we currently have a mix of JUnit5, JUnit4 and Spock (Groovy) tests, so it becomes not so straightforward.

PS If I just use this configuration - all IT tests are getting disabled and nothing is executed:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <excludes>
            <exclude>**/*IT.*</exclude>
        </excludes>
        <includes>
            <include>**/*SpecialIT.*</include>
        </includes>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Answer 1

Thanks to @andrey-b-panfilov, I realized that my problem was that I somehow was under an impression ( based on this ) that all ...IT tests are always executed by default... But this is, of course, only until the <includes> is overwritten. So, the solution is eventually to just define the following two configurations:

• To execute all but SpecialIT :

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <includes>
            <include>**/*IT.*</include>
        </includes>
        <excludes>
            <exclude>**/*SpecialIT.*</exclude>
        </excludes>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

• To execute only SpecialIT :

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <includes>
            <include>**/*SpecialIT.*</include>
        </includes>
    </configuration>
</plugin>