Is there a way to “fail fast” for junit with the maven surefire plugin?

Question

I\'m currently working on a java project using maven. We use the maven surefire plugin to run our junit suite as part of the build process.

Our test suite is rapidl

Answer 1

You can run maven with --fail-fast option:

The -ff option is very useful for developers running interactive builds who want to have rapid feedback during the development cycle.

an example can be:

mvn clean test -ff

http://books.sonatype.com/mvnref-book/reference/running-sect-options.html