maven-failsafe-plugin Errors and BUILD SUCCESS?

You need having two executions blocks, cause the verify goal of the maven-failsafe-plugin is intended to check the results of the integration tests.

  <executions>
    <execution>
        <id>functional-test-1024</id>
        <phase>test</phase>
        <goals>
            <goal>integration-test</goal>
        </goals>
        <configuration>
            <includes>
                <include>**/IntegrationTierFunctionalTestCase.java</include>
            </includes>
            <forkMode>once</forkMode>
            <argLine>-XX:MaxPermSize=256M -Xmx1024M</argLine>
        </configuration>
    </execution>
    <execution>
        <id>verify</id>
        <phase>verify</phase>
        <goals>
            <goal>verify</goal>
        </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>

Furthermore you should update the version of the maven-failsafe-plugin to 2.14.1 instead of 2.7.
Update: In the meantime update to 2.17.