I am currently trying to add profiles to a sub-module with maven. The purpose is to run a suite of cucumber tests but only in some circumstances (these are regression tests and we only want to run them when we build a release branch). I have written a profile in the pom of the module where the tests are. However, I cannot get the profile to activate. I’ve tried using the id of the profile in mvn clean test -Pcucumber and also using a property with mvn clean test -Dcucumber but it doesn’t work. Is there something I’m missing?

Snippet from the module pom showing the profile:

<profile>
 <id>cucumber</id>
 <activation>
  <property>
   <name>cucumber</name>
  </property>
 </activation>
 <build>
  <plugins>
   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${surefire.version}</version>
    <configuration>
     <includes>
      <include>**/RunCucumber*.java</include>
     </includes>
    <skipTests>false</skipTests>
    </configuration>
   </plugin>
  </plugins>
 </build>
</profile>