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

This isn't a direct answer to the question, but it can also be useful to feed the output of maven through grep, to strip out most stuff and help you to see where the test failures are.

Like this:

mvn test | grep -w 'Running\|Tests'

Which produces output (for my code) like this:

Running scot.mygov.pp.test.dashboard.DashboardJsonSerDesCRUDTest
Tests run: 26, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.029 sec
Running scot.mygov.pp.test.dashboard.DashboardBaselineCRUDTest
Tests run: 26, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.026 sec
Running scot.mygov.pp.test.dashboard.DashboardDatabaseValidationTest
Tests run: 7, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 2.264 sec
Running scot.mygov.pp.test.dashboard.DashboardServiceWebServiceIsolationCRUDTest
Tests run: 26, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.032 sec

Much easier to see where the first error of failure is.