diff --git a/asterix-app/pom.xml b/asterix-app/pom.xml
index 9f408fc..9cf1788 100644
--- a/asterix-app/pom.xml
+++ b/asterix-app/pom.xml
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@
 				<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
 				<version>2.8</version>
 				<configuration>
-				<skipTests>true</skipTests> 
 					<!-- doesn't work from m2eclipse, currently <additionalClasspathElements> 
 						<additionalClasspathElement>${basedir}/src/main/resources</additionalClasspathElement> 
 						</additionalClasspathElements> -->