Running an individual unit test with maven

Individual tests can be run from maven. This must be done from within the folder that contains the source (as in the folder that contains src/test/java), which will likely be either be the root of your maven project, or in one of your modules.

For surefire (unit tests), to run a whole test class, this will be something like:

mvn -Dtest=com.your.package.YourTest test

or, to run a specific test method:

mvn -Dtest=com.your.package.YourTest#testMethod test

For failsafe (integration tests), it will be something like:

mvn -Dit.test=com.your.package.YourIT verify

This is covered in the maven surefire plugin docs and maven failesafe plugin docs respectively, but those examples don’t mention packages names, which are required.

Tags: failsafe, integrationtesting, JUnit, Maven, mvn, surefire, Testing, unittesting