Why do I need maven surefire plugin?

Those are two different plugins. maven-compiler-plugin, as its name suggests, handles compiling your code. maven-surefire-plugin handles [unit] test execution and failing the build process if there are test failures.

The Maven surefire plugin provides a “test” parameter that we can use to specify test classes or methods we want to execute. If we want to execute a single test class, we can execute the command: mvn test -Dtest=”TestClassName” .

The Surefire Plugin is used during the test phase of the build lifecycle to execute the unit tests of an application . It generates reports in two different file formats: Plain text files (*. txt)

Maven sure fire plugin is used to follow the sequence of tests in testng. xml file . If we don’t include the Mavwen surefire plugin then it will execute all the testcases under src/test/java which has prefix or suffix as ‘test’ and these tests will get executed without any sequence.