Unable to invoke SureFire plugin to run a Java Test - maven-surefire-plugin

Question

I have created a Java test (i can convert it to Junit as well if required). I want it to invoke when the project build. I added the dependency in the Pom.xml but on building the project, the test is not triggered. I think the Surefire plugin is not invoked in the first place because i can not see any reports in the target folder.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.19.1</version>
<configuration>
<includes>
<include>com.configtests/ConfigTests.java</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
</plugin>

Answer 1

Generally, you have this kind of structure:
Module
-- src
-- main
-- java
-- com.module
-- (classes)
-- test
-- java
-- com.module
-- (test classes)
-- pom.xml
Then the plugin syntax looks like this:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.19.1</version>
<configuration>
<includes>
<include>*</include>
</includes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
I assume you want to have ConfigTests.java under the package you have named com.configtests in the test directory. Should suffice to just do:
<include>ConfigTests.java</include>
No reason to declare the package prepended. It should find the class properly so long as you have the pom.xml at the top-level and the class under a folder in the same directory accordingly (in the test folder!)
EDIT:
Also, to run the tests as part of your build it should be running the tests auto-magically with: mvn clean install or, you can run the tests isolated like mvn test. Output in the console will indicate if the tests were run or not.