Maven - Surefire Plugin

surefire

• runs tests of a project using the surefire plugin
• by default, this plugin generates XML reports in the directory target/surefire-reports
• this plugin has only one goal, test. This goal is bound to the test phase of the default build lifecycle, and the command mvn test will execute it

By default, surefire automatically includes all test classes whose name starts with Test, or ends with Test, Tests or TestCase

We can change this configuration using the excludes and includes parameters, however:

    <build>
      <plugins>
<!--         maven by default will run test ending with *Test.java with `mvn test` command -->
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
               <excludes>
                  <exclude>DataTest.java</exclude>
               </excludes>
               <includes>
                  <include>DataCheck.java</include>
               </includes>
            </configuration>
         </plugin>
      <plugins>
    <build>

With this configuration, test cases in the DataCheck class are executed while the ones in DataTest aren’t