Maven tests with Surefire / Failsafe / OpenClover

Too many articles about Surefire and Failsafe, and most people still don't know why Surefire and Failsafe are for and how to use it.

Surefire is used for unit tests
Failsafe is used for integration tests

This project is a clean example how to configure you project with Surefire, Failsafe and OpenClover with only necessary dependencies, and how to run your JUnit tests and generate a code coverage report.

Running unit tests with Surefire

mvn clean test

Running integration tests with Failsafe

Running and checking tests separately

mvn failsafe:integration-test
mvn failsafe:verify

Running in one command

mvn verify

Running unit and integration tests together

mvn verify -Dskip.surefire.test=false

Running with OpenClover (for code coverage report)

Running unit tests

mvn clean clover:setup test

Running integration tests

mvn clover:setup failsafe:integration-test failsafe:verify

Generate code coverage

mvn clover:aggregate clover:save-history clover:clover