Surefire (Unit Testing)

Resources

getResource

Resources can be ../../java/resource-in-jar loaded from the test classes folder.

basedir

Surefire sets a basedir system property, which you can retrieve with:

System.getProperty("basedir")

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-surefire-plugin/test-mojo.html

Console Output

This doesn’t seem to work… but for future reference:

How to direct test output to the console

Skip

All Tests

To skip the unit tests:

mvn clean package -Dmaven.test.skip=true
// or in later versions:
mvn clean package -DskipTests

or add the following to pom.xml:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <skip>true</skip>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>

    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

Individual Test

  • Run

    To run an individual test:

    mvn clean package -Dtest=com.sample.AppTest
# Probably worth trying this:
mvn test -Dtest=com.sample.AppTest

    The value for the test parameter is the name of the test class (without the extension).

  • Skip

    To skip an individual unit test, add the following to pom.xml:

    <project>
  ...
  <build>
    <plugins>

      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <skip>false</skip>
          <includes>
            <include>**/*.java</include>
          </includes>
          <excludes>
            <exclude>**/GatewayServerTest.java</exclude>
          </excludes>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>

    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

    This configuration skips GatewayServerTest.java. For more information on patterns for the inclusion and exclusion of files see Directory-based Tasks from the Apache ANT manual.

Issues

Class Loading Issues

  • Class Loading Issues

  • [m2] Forking with Surefire

    java.lang.LinkageError: loader constraints violated when linking javax/xml/namespace/QName class

    Add this to pom.xml:

    <build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
      <configuration>
        <childDelegation>false</childDelegation>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>