Stop Tests on first Failure with Maven/JUnit/Spring

Question

I'd like Maven to stop trying to run my JUnit Spring tests when it encounters the first error. Is this possible?

My test classes look like the following, and I run them just as a standard Maven target.

@ContextConfiguration(locations = {"classpath:/spring-config/store-persistence.xml","classpath:/spring-config/store-security.xml","classpath:/spring-config/store-service.xml", "classpath:/spring-config/store-servlet.xml" })
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@Transactional
public class SkuLicenceServiceIntegrationTest
{
...

If there's an error in the Spring config, then each test will try to restart the Spring context, which takes 20 seconds a go. This means we don't find out for ages that any tests have failed, as it'll try to run the whole lot before concluding that the build was a failure!

Thievery

BTW: #1924357 – Sirloin

Does this answer your question? Is there a way to "fail fast" for junit with the maven surefire plugin? – Osithe

Answer 1

Answering ten years later, since I needed exactly the same.

The failsafe plugin can be configure to "skip tests after failure", using the skipAfterFailureCount parameter.

Official documentation:

https://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-failsafe-plugin/examples/skip-after-failure.html

Drought

Answer 2

This is more a remark, than an answer, but still, maybe you'll find it useful.

I'd recommend separating your integration tests into a separate phase, and running them with Failsafe, rather than Surefire. This way you can decide whether you need to run only fast unit tests, or the complete set with long-running integration tests:

    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.6</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>integration-test</id>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>integration-test</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
                <!-- Uncomment/comment this in order to fail the build if any integration test fail -->
                <execution>
                    <id>verify</id>
                    <goals><goal>verify</goal></goals>  
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>

A workaround for your problem might be singling out a test into a separate execution and run it first; this way the execution would fail and subsequent surefire/failsafe executions will not be launched. See how to configure the plugin to do it.

Sirloin

At least with Maven 2.2.1, it seems that with separate executions of failsafe, a failure of the first execution doesn't prevent the second execution from running anyway. – Janeljanela