It looks like empty directories are not being copied over to target/test-classes: | [starksm@valkyrie deployers-vfs]$ ls target/tests-classes/structure/ear/ | archive.ear* noappxml.ear/ someappxml.ear/ | complexwithappxml.ear/ simplewithappxml.ear/ strict.ear/ | | ... | Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 1, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.031 sec <<< FAILURE! | testNotAnEAR(org.jboss.test.deployers.vfs.structure.ear.test.EARStructureRecognizeTestCase) Time elapsed: 0.016 sec <<< ERROR! | java.io.FileNotFoundException: File does not exist: C:\home\svn\JBossMC\jboss-deployers\trunk\deployers-vfs\target\tests-classes\structure\ear\notanear | If I just add an empty file to notanear, the mvn test output consistently passes: | [starksm@valkyrie deployers-vfs]$ touch src/resources/tests/structure/ear/notanear/empty | [starksm@valkyrie deployers-vfs]$ mvn test | ... | Results : | | Tests run: 155, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0 | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4138223#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...