使用命令行选项使用maven跳过单个测试

Question

I would like to skip a single test (eg 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 .

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"

ie 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.