Skip single test with maven with command line options

Question

I would like to skip a single test (e.g. com.example.MyTest) when building a project with Maven from the command line.

I'm aware of similar questions like this one, but they all require either modification of source code or pom.xml. I would like to do without modifications. How can I exclude a test using command line options only?

What I've tried so far after reading some documentation is

mvn clean install -Dtest="*,!com.example.MyTest"

but the test is still not skipped. I'm using surefire plugin version 2.19 and JUnit 4.11.

Perigon

Answer 1

It turns out that (at least in Surefire 2.19), the test pattern doesn't work with fully qualified class names. So the right solution is

mvn clean install -Dtest="*,!MyTest"

i.e. without the package path.

In Surefire 2.19.1, it should be possible to use fully qualified names. In versions older than 2.19, neither seems to work.

Perigon

It didn't work for me :( This is how I'm using it: ` test -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j-dm.xml -Dtest="*,!Testname1Test,!Testname2Test,!Testname3Test,!Testname4Test" `. – Anesthesiology

What version of surefire are you using? – Perigon

Version: [INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.4:test (default-test) – Anesthesiology

I guess that your version of Surefire doesn't support excluding tests like this. Try upgrading to 2.19. – Perigon

When I start Jenkins, it says the version is maven-surefire-plugin:2.12.4. I already updated the pom version my app, but I don't know how to do that in Jenkins. I'm still searching how to do that. – Anesthesiology

I had to escape the "!" (use "\!" instead) otherwise I get a bash "event not found" error, see serverfault.com/questions/208265/what-is-bash-event-not-found – Alanaalanah