maven surefire: how to print current test being run?

Question

Is there any way to get maven surefire to print the name of every unit test (i.e., test method) it's starting?

Something like:

testFoo: ... passed
testBar: ... failed

Flaunty

Possibly duplicate of #15204256 – Copyboy

Answer 1

It's a bit of stretch, but you could implement a RunListener and add it to surefire. See how to configure it here.

Bollix

Instead, why not log the test name from the test code itself ? – Chelton

For anyone using JUnit 5, you can now provide a TestExecutionListener : junit.org/junit5/docs/current/user-guide/… – Aruspex

Answer 2

In details

package com.example.mavenproject;

import org.junit.runner.Description;
import org.junit.runner.Result;
import org.junit.runner.notification.RunListener;

/**
 * @author Paul Verest
 */
public class PrintOutCurrentTestRunListener extends RunListener {
    @Override
    public void testRunStarted(Description description) throws Exception {
        // TODO all methods return null
        System.out.println("testRunStarted " + description.getClassName() + " " + description.getDisplayName() + " "
                + description.toString());
    }

    public void testStarted(Description description) throws Exception {
        System.out.println("testStarted "
                + description.toString());
    }

    public void testFinished(Description description) throws Exception {
        System.out.println("testFinished "
                + description.toString());
    }

    public void testRunFinished(Result result) throws Exception {
        System.out.println("testRunFinished " + result.toString()
                + " time:"+result.getRunTime()
                +" R"+result.getRunCount()
                +" F"+result.getFailureCount()
                +" I"+result.getIgnoreCount()
                );
    }
}

and in pom.xml

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>junit</groupId>
        <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
        <version>4.12</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>
<!-- -->
<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.19.1</version>
            <configuration>
                <properties>
                    <property>
                        <name>listener</name>
                        <value>com.example.mavenproject.PrintOutCurrentTestRunListener</value>
                    </property>
                </properties>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Copyboy

Does not appear as though System.out.println makes it into the Maven console log, nor any report. – Rumrunner

It works for junit 4 only, in junit 5 you must use TestExecutionListener (see details here) – Ranking

Answer 3

Alternatively you can run maven in debug mode with --debug or -X flags

Artery

It doesn't log successfully executed tests. – Plea