How to run a TestSuite but not the Test classes directly

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I have a JUnit suite as follows

@RunWith(value=org.junit.runners.Suite.class)
@SuiteClasses(
value={
        AccountDAOImplUnitTest.class,
        SessionDAOImplUnitTest.class,
        UserDAOImplUnitTest.class,
        LicensingEntityDAOImplUnitTest.class,
        DomainDAOImplUnitTest.class,
        OrganizationDAOImplUnitTest.class,
        QuestionDAOImplUnitTest.class,
        SurveyAnswerDAOUnitTest.class
      }
)
public class DAOUnitTestSuite {

====

test {
    println 'Starting the Unit and Integration test'
    include '**/*UnitTest*'
    include '**/*IntTest*'
    include '**/dao/mysql/*TestSuite'
    exclude '**/dao/mysql/*UnitTest*'
}

My DAO unit test classes requires to be run using TestSuite because I do some H2 database setup in the @Before of the suite. Since my unit test classes have UnitTest suffix and they depend on TestSuite @Before, I had to exclude the pattern ‘**/dao/mysql/UnitTest’.

When I run the test, none of the DAO tests get executed even though TestSuite is included.

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Figured I was using wrong pattern. I had to do

    include '**/*UnitTest*'
    include '**/*IntTest*'
    include '**/dao/mysql/DAOUnitTestSuite.class'
    exclude '**/dao/mysql/*UnitTest.class'