I have a java project the has 3 "levels" in it. The pom in my top maven directory is looks like this:
<groupId>com.my_app</groupId>
<artifactId>my_app</artifactId>
<version>LATEST-SNAPSHOT</version>
<modules>
<module>first_module</module>
<module>second_module</module>
</modules>
...
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.22.1</version>
<configuration>
<parallel>classes</parallel>
<threadCount>10</threadCount>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
first_module (second level) pom is:
<parent>
<groupId>com.my_app</groupId>
<artifactId>my_app</artifactId>
<version>LATEST-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<groupId>com.my_app.first_module</groupId>
<artifactId>first_module</artifactId>
<version>LATEST-SNAPSHOT</version>
...
<plugins>
<plugin>
<version>2.22.1</version>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
and finally, (3rd level) the pom the of the project that actually has test classes in it:
<parent>
<artifactId>first_module</artifactId>
<groupId>com.my_app.first_module</groupId>
<version>LATEST-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>my_project</artifactId>
...
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.22.1</version>
</plugin>
</plugins>
My question is - does this structure of poms allow for configuration inheritance from the top to the bottom pom? I mean, if I have the parallel configuration in the first pom in the maven-sirefure-plugin - will it take affect in test classes under first_module and under my_project ?