Questions tagged [maven-surefire-plugin]
The Surefire Plugin is used during the test phase of the build lifecycle to execute the unit tests of an application. It is commonly used in continuous integration.
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Making Maven run all tests, even when some fail
I have a project with several modules. When all tests pass, Maven test runs them all.
When tests fail in the first module, maven will not continue to the next project. I have testFailureIgnore set to ...
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The forked VM terminated without saying properly goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called
Please help me to solve this issue. I do not exactly understand what the error in the log means.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[...
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Maven surefire could not find ForkedBooter class
Recently coming to a new project, I'm trying to compile our source code. Everything worked fine yesterday, but today is another story.
Every time I'm running mvn clean install on a module, once ...
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How do I get my Maven Integration tests to run
I have a maven2 multi-module project and in each of my child modules I have JUnit tests that are named Test.java and Integration.java for unit tests and integration tests respectively. When I execute:...
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How can I get maven-release-plugin to skip my tests?
How can I get the maven-release-plugin to run without triggering the tests?
I have tried
-Dmaven.test.skip=true
and
-DskipTests
and
-DpreparationGoals=clean
...yet none work.
Yes, I know ...
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Prevent unit tests but allow integration tests in Maven
I've a Maven build in which I use the SureFire plugin to run some unit tests, and the FailSafe plugin to run some integration tests. I would like a way to run just the FailSafe plugin's tests.
It's ...
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Surefire is not picking up Junit 5 tests
I wrote a simple test method with JUnit 5:
public class SimlpeTest {
@Test
@DisplayName("Some description")
void methodName() {
// Testing logic for subject under test
}
}
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What is the difference between the Maven Surefire and Maven Failsafe plugins?
What is the difference between Maven Surefire and Maven Failsafe plugins?
I have searched all over web, but did not get the answer.
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JUnit tests pass in Eclipse but fail in Maven Surefire
I have written some JUnit tests using JUnit 4 and spring-test libraries. When I run the tests inside Eclipse then run fine and pass. But when I run them using Maven (during the build process), they ...
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Make maven's surefire show stacktrace in console
I'd like to see the stacktrace of unit tests in the console. Does surefire support this?
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IntelliJ Error when running unit test: Could not find or load main class ${surefireArgLine}
I get the following error when running Unit tests in IntelliJ:
Error: Could not find or load main class ${surefireArgLine}.
I am using maven and in pom.xml I have:
<properties>
...
<...
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How to run JUnit tests by category in Maven?
Using JUnit 4.8 and the new @Category annotations, is there a way to choose a subset of categories to run with Maven's Surefire plugin?
For example I have:
@Test
public void a() {
}
@Category(...
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Is there a way to skip only a single test in maven?
I would like to skip only a single test while launching mvn install.
Is there a way to do that ?
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Cannot use jacoco JVM args and surefire JVM args together in maven
I am using maven with the jacoco plugin to generate code coverage metrics. I am having some difficulty in configuring the surefire plugin with the java options required by the jacoco plugin. I've seen ...
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Surefire Maven plugin: "Corrupted STDOUT by directly writing to native stream in forked JVM"
My JUnit tests are failing when running them through Maven and the Surefire plugin (version information below). I see the error message:
Corrupted STDOUT by directly writing to native stream in forked ...
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How to get a test resource file?
In a unit test I need to import a csv file. This is located in the resources folder, i.e. src/test/resources
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How can I skip tests in maven install goal, while running them in maven test goal?
I have a multi-module maven project with both integration and unit tests in the same folder (src/test/java). Integration tests are marked with @Category(IntegrationTest.class). I want to end up with ...
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Spring Boot fails to run maven-surefire-plugin ClassNotFoundException org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter
Running maven (3.5.2) build of a Spring Boot 2.0.2.RELEASE applicaton (generated by web initialiser with web dependencies) fails executing the maven-surefire-plugin saying just:
Error: Could not ...
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What is the use of Maven-Surefire plugin
What is the use of the Maven Surefire Plugin?
I can not find a proper example.
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How do I make Jenkins build fail when Maven unit tests fail?
I'm using Jenkins, Maven 3.1, and Java 1.6. I have the following Maven job set up in Jenkins with the following goals and options ...
clean install -U -P cloudbees -P qa
below is my pom.xml ...
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Is there a way to "fail fast" for junit with the maven surefire plugin?
I'm currently working on a java project using maven. We use the maven surefire plugin to run our junit suite as part of the build process.
Our test suite is rapidly growing, in both coverage and ...
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TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy
When upgrading from Surefire 2.6 to Surefire 2.13, I get a TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy when running my unit tests.
java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy
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How to run individual test in the integration-test target in maven
We have a hundreds of tests defined for our integration-test phase lifecycle in maven, and they take a long time to finish.
What I want to do is run just one test in the integration-test. I tried ...
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Is there a decent HTML Junit report plugin for Maven?
I find the surefire-report plug-in very unsuitable to my working style. I clean the project all the time and I don't want to spend 5 min to rebuild the whole site every time I want to look at the test ...
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How to execute JUnit and TestNG tests in same project using maven-surefire-plugin?
Right now I have both type of tests but when I say "mvn test" it only executes TestNG tests and not Junit. I want to execute both one after another. Any Idea ?
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Howto add another test source folder to Maven and compile it to a separate folder?
I have the default src/test/java folder for our unit tests. A separate folder src/integration/java is available for the integration tests.
I configured the maven-surefire-plugin to execute the unit/...
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Maven -DskipTests ignored
I'm building a Maven project with following SureFire configuration:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</...
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NoSuchMethodError with Hamcrest 1.3 & JUnit 4.11
Another instance of the NoSuchMethodError for the JUnit & Hamcrest combination.
Offending code:
assertThat(dirReader.document(0).getFields(), hasItem(
new FeatureMatcher<IndexableField, ...
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Surefire is not picking up Junit 4 tests
For some reason I cannot get Maven 2 Surefire plugin to execute JUnit 4 test class.
public class SimpleTest {
@org.junit.Test
public void simple() {
System.out.println("foo");
}
}
However ...
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Maven not running JUnit 5 tests
I'm trying to get a simple junit test running with maven but it is not detecting any tests. Where am I going wrong? The project directory
Project -> src -> test-> java -> MyTest.java
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Merging Integration and Unit test reports with JaCoCo
I am generating failsafe and surefire reports with maven with the JaCoCo plugin, but I can only manage to get them in separate reports. I would like to have a overall coverage view (merge between both ...
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Maven (Surefire): copy test resources from src/test/java
Maven's Surefire (testing) pluginmvn test-compile copies files in src/test/resources to target/test-classes. It compiles .java in src/test/java, and copies the compiled .class files to target/test-...
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Strategy for debugging surefire "The forked VM terminated without saying properly goodbye. VM crash or System.exit called ?"
I am working on a rather complex java project with many dependencies and many unit tests.
I am using java 1.6.0_65 on mac (mavericks) with maven 3.0.5 with maven-surefire-plugin:2.16 running in ...
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Maven Surefire plugin "Error occured in starting fork, check output in log"
I get the following error
BUILD ERROR
Error occured in starting fork, check output in log
when using Maven 2.2.1 and Surefire plugin 2.11 while running junit test cases.
How can I fix it?
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Maven 2.1.0 not passing on system properties to Java virtual machine
We use the command line to pass on system properties to the Java
virtual machine when running our Hudson builds on a Linux box. It used
to work quite well in 2.0.9 by since we upgraded to 2.1.0 it ...
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Maven separate Unit Test and Integration Tests
UT = Unit Tests
IT = Integration Tests. All my Integration test classes are annotated with @Category(IntegrationTest.class)
My goal is:
mvn clean install => runs UT and not IT
mvn clean install -...
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Is there a way to tell surefire to skip tests in a certain package?
Something like the following.
I would like a way to skip my dao tests in surefire. Trying to avoid overhead of defining Suites.
With CI I'd like to have one nightly that runs all tests and another ...
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Benefits of Maven FailSafe Plugin
I read Maven Failsafe plugin is designed specifically to run integration tests. Currently I'm working on a multi-module project and integration tests are in its own separate module, written in TestNg ...
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Setting timezone for maven unit tests on Java 8
How do I set the timezone for unit tests in maven surefire on Java 8?
With Java 7 this used to work with systemPropertyVariables like in the following configuration, but with Java 8 the tests just ...
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How to pass java code a parameter from maven for testing
I need to pass on following values …
exeEvironment (Test environment) ,
testGroup (Group in testNG)
from Command-Line -> POM -> TestNG -> Test cases.
Based on these two posts ....
pass a java ...
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Maven doesn't execute any unit test
I am using Maven with multi-modules. There are 3 projects.
foo(the parent project)
foo-core
foo-bar
I configure all the dependencies and plugins in foo's pom:
<modules>
<module>../...
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Logging level under maven surefire
I'm unable to adjust java logging's logging level. I'm using maven surefire (mvn test), and trying to adjust from the default INFO to e.g. FINEST.
I have logging.properties file under src/test/...
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Run JUnit Tests contained in dependency jar using Maven Surefire
I have a jar in my maven repository that contains junit tests, which should be run in different projects, because it is able to inspect the project and test for certain features of it. Unforunately ...
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Maven surefire plugin fork mode
By default maven surefile plugin run tests in isolated (forked) environment. You can override this behavior with following configuration:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<...
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how to debug maven surefire test more easily (using eclipse as debug server)
I'm using maven / surefire / eclipse to write some code and later test / debug it.
Standard way to do it is by using maven.surefire.debug maven property. By default, when this property is enabled, ...
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Output failed test details to stdout using maven surefire
When I run my build using maven 2
mvn clean install
my tests are run by surefire plug-in. In case test failed I get the following output:
Results :
Failed tests:
test1(com.my.MyClassTest)
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Generate test-jar along with jar file in test package
I want to package my test package to jar file . How to execute generate test-jar from maven plugin Surefire.
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Surefire doesn't launch test in src/main/java
I needed to move some src/test/java to src/main/java according to this recommandation from maven-jar-plugin documentation => http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-jar-plugin/usage.html
I did so ...
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Generating html surefire test html output during test phase
I'm not sure if this is a simple question or not, but I'd like surefire to generate html formatted output files(in addition to the xml and txt formatted output files) during the test phase.
I've ...
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maven-surefire-plugin include/exclude precedence
When using the maven-surefire-plugin and both includes and excludes, which order are they processed in? Furthermore, if you have 3 sets of tests, the first being the base set, the second and third ...
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