maven-surefire-plugin missing in eclipse

Question

when I'm building a maven project I got this error .....

[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2.790s
[INFO] Finished at: Sun May 11 09:36:22 IST 2014
[INFO] Final Memory: 6M/111M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test    (default-test) on project javaeeapp: Execution default-test of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10:test failed: Unable to load the mojo 'test' in the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10'. A required class is missing: org/apache/maven/plugin/surefire/SurefireReportParameters
[ERROR] -----------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] realm =    plugin>org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.10
[ERROR] strategy = org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.strategy.SelfFirstStrategy
[ERROR] urls[0] = file:/C:/Users/NOughT/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/2.10/maven-surefire-plugin-2.10.jar
[ERROR] urls[1] = file:/C:/Users/NOughT/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/surefire/surefire-booter/2.10/surefire-booter-2.10.jar
[ERROR] urls[2] = file:/C:/Users/NOughT/.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/surefire/maven-surefire-common/2.10/maven-surefire-common-2.10.jar
[ERROR] urls[3] = file:/C:/Users/NOughT/.m2/repository/org/codehaus/plexus/plexus-utils/2.1/plexus-utils-2.1.jar
[ERROR] Number of foreign imports: 1
[ERROR] import: Entry[import  from realm ClassRealm[maven.api, parent: null]]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] -----------------------------------------------------: org.apache.maven.plugin.surefire.SurefireReportParameters
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginContainerException

how I add maven surefire plugin to eclipse??

Solution

Add Maven Surefire Plugin in pom.xml.
Refer sample pom.xml here:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <!-- To define the plugin version in your parent POM -->
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>2.17</version>
        </plugin>
        ...
      </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
    <!-- To use the plugin goals in your POM or parent POM -->
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.17</version>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

Comments

[Kaspatoo]

worth to note that either of both entries <pluginmanagement><plugins><plugin>... or <plugins><plugin>.. is to be used not both in parallel. dont forget the version, will lead into maven warning else